Infrastructure
Architecture Overview
A layered, multi-AZ AWS architecture designed for zero-downtime deployments and elastic scale.
AWS Production Architecture
Internet
👤 Users
☁ CloudFront CDN
🌐 Route 53
↓ HTTPS / TLS (ACM)
Edge / Security
🛡 WAF
⚖ ALB
🔰 Shield
↓ Private Subnets
Compute — ECS Fargate (Multi-AZ)
AZ-a
🐳 Container
AZ-b
🐳 Container
AZ-c
🐳 Container
↓ Data Layer
Data — Private Subnets
🗄 RDS Aurora
Multi-AZ
Multi-AZ
⚡ ElastiCache
Redis
Redis
📦 S3
Versioned
Versioned
Operations
📊 CloudWatch
🔍 X-Ray
💾 AWS Backup
🔑 Secrets Mgr
Route 53
DNS routing with health checks and failover policies for high availability.
CloudFront
Global CDN caching static assets at edge locations for sub-100ms load times.
WAF + Shield
Web Application Firewall with DDoS protection and managed rule groups.
Application Load Balancer
Layer-7 load balancing with path-based routing across multiple ECS tasks.
ECS Fargate
Serverless container runtime — no EC2 management, auto-scales tasks.
ECR
Private container registry with vulnerability scanning and lifecycle policies.
RDS Aurora
Fully managed relational database with Multi-AZ and automated failover.
ElastiCache
Redis in-memory cache for session management and API response caching.