I have a Node.js application which is being automatically deployed to Amazon Web Service through Codeship using the CodeDeploy AWS
There is another way documented in the AWS developer forums, which I think is preferable.
Use the --ignore-application-stop-failures option with the CLI tool while doing the deployment, it worked perfectly for me.
Example taken from the forum:
aws deploy create-deployment --application-name APPLICATION --deployment-group-name GROUP --ignore-application-stop-failures --s3-location bundleType=tar,bucket=BUCKET,key=KEY --description "Ignore ApplicationStop failures due to broken script"
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=166904