A DevOps team is deploying a new version of their application to their production environment...

In a Canary deployment strategy, a new version of an application is rolled out to a small subset of the production environment (the canary) first, while the majority of the production environment still runs the current stable version. This approach helps to detect potential issues before the new version is fully deployed.

The Invoke Function stage can be used as an optional step in the deployment pipeline to run additional validation (e.g., automated tests or other checks) on the new version before gradually shifting more traffic to it or moving to full production deployment.