This document discusses AWS CodeDeploy, an automated deployment service that can deploy code to EC2 instances, on-premises servers, and Auto Scaling groups. It provides an example of using CodeDeploy to deploy a Ruby on Rails application from a GitHub repository to an Auto Scaling group. Key steps include configuring an appspec.yml file, IAM roles, and Auto Scaling launch configuration for the deployment process and creating a CodeDeploy application and deployment to trigger the deployment.