Planning the deployment

Before diving into the playbooks, we should get an idea of what we are trying to achieve. As mentioned, we will build on our AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) role by adding instances and storage; our final deployment will look like the following diagram:

Figure 11.1 – An overview of what we shall be launching

In the diagram, we have the following:

• 2 x EC2 instances (t2.micro), deployed across different availability zones
• 1 x RDS instances (t2.micro)
• 1 x EFS storage across three availability zones

Before we talk about the deployment itself, based on the diagram and specifications here, how much is this deployment going to cost us to run?

Costing the deployment

The cost of running this deployment in the EU-West-1 region is as follows:

Instance Type

# Number

Instance cost

Total...