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Hey all - I have 2 prefect agents (1 on ECS, 1 on an EC2).  I want a deployment to run on the ECS task after the EC2 flow finishes (orchestrator pattern)

From my googling, it seems that there are two options:
• use an automation (limited to 3 per workspace)
• Use a custom script (like <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-create-a-flow-run-from-deployment-orchestrator-pattern/803/10|here>)
Has anyone come across a simpler, more scalable way to do this?  I'm hoping to avoid adding a bunch of code to my flows just to make a handoff between infras, if possible

Hi Zachary, we’ve actually come a long way since that discourse article was written:

Now you can call <https://docs.prefect.io/latest/concepts/deployments/#create-a-flow-run-in-a-python-script|run_deployment> to kick off deployments as a result of any kind of python logic.

You can call run_deployment from outside or inside of a task or flow.

I could see something like this working:

```@flow
def my_parent_flow():
    a = run_deployment("ecs-deployment")
    if a.state() == "Completed":
        run_deployment("ec2-deployment")```

Automations are good for setting global automations rules that you want applied across your workspace.

Thank you <@U03AT2QB6LF> I will give this a try!