Setting up for production

This is it! The final section where AWS will be configured to host the application for production deployment. The key issues in the production setup include health monitoring of the application, disaster recovery, security, costs, configuration management, and process repeatability.

The AWS production deployment architecture

The first step is to design the deployment architecture. You can architect AWS in several different ways to meet your business requirements. The deployment architecture presented here takes into consideration security practices, and is specifically designed for scalability and high availability. In addition, it is an extension to the one presented for HA in Chapter 5, Designing for and Implementing High Availability.

Let's re-examine the choices made for the selection and configuration of AWS resources. The choices for regions, availability zones, ELB, ASG, RDS, and S3 have already been covered in chapters 3 to 5. All the AWS resources needed for...