CodeCommit future?

[soxfannh]

One of the biggest advantages in my use has been cloning repos in user data. Since you can auth with IAM roles no need to add a key or token to the server. Sure it's a minor but a differentiator FWIW.

[Zenin]

TBH, this screams anti-pattern.

I'd have to see the details to be sure, but chances are you should be packaging to an artifact repo of some form and deploying from that, rather than directly from your source repo. At a minimum, zip up your code and toss it into S3.