TL;DR: Use AppConfig deployment strategies (Linear, Exponential, Canary) for the gradual part that AppConfig does own: rolling the configuration out across targets with bake periods. Do not model AppConfig flags as percentage rollouts; the flag value is true or false for the whole environment. If you need a gradual user ramp, combine the boolean flag with your own bucketing logic in the app, or pair AppConfig with a dedicated experimentation system.

## Fix
1. Use AppConfig deployment strategies (Linear, Exponential, Canary) for the gradual part that AppConfig does own: rolling the configuration out across targets with bake periods.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.

## Details
Do not model AppConfig flags as percentage rollouts; the flag value is true or false for the whole environment. If you need a gradual user ramp, combine the boolean flag with your own bucketing logic in the app, or pair AppConfig with a dedicated experimentation system. AppConfig feature flags are BOOLEAN and UNIFORM per environment; the platform has no native percentage rollout. A gradual user ramp requires application-side logic or a separate system reading the flag.

## When to use
You hit exactly this: AWS AppConfig flags are boolean and uniform per environment; percentage rollout is app-side in AWS.

## When not to use
A different error, or the same symptom in a different tool. This page only covers the failure above.

## Compatibility
AWS.

## Edge cases
- Context from the original thread: Architecture notes (dpacgdm/system-design, feature flags and progressive delivery): documents the AppConfig gotcha that trips agents building percentage rollouts.

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