Add an approval gate

At NovaTech, your team's pipeline deploys to a staging environment automatically, but production deployments need a human sign-off. Use the approval gate simulator to explore how manual approval actions work in CodePipeline.

The simulator shows a 4-stage pipeline: Source, Build, Approval, and Deploy. The pipeline has reached the Approval stage and is waiting for a decision.

Experiment with approving and rejecting the pipeline to see how the approval gate controls the flow to production. Notice what information is available to the approver and what happens downstream in each case.

Question: Your pipeline has four stages: Source, Build, Approval, and Deploy. You want to ensure no code reaches production without a human review after staging tests pass. What does CodePipeline do when the pipeline reaches the approval action you placed before the Deploy stage?