Solution: Scalable and Secure Application Hosting with Amazon ECS and RDS Integration

Overview

DevSecOps Inc. (a.k.a. “Andromeda”) delivers a streamlined ECS-based workload management solution, primarily focusing on:

(a) containerizing client applications,
(b) setting up optimized ECS clusters,
(c) implementing tailored CI/CD pipelines for agile deployment and secure rollbacks, and
(d) implementing high-grade information security at to protect data managed and processed by your applications.

Our integrated monitoring solution, combining AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, ensures comprehensive visibility into both application performance and infrastructure health, aligning with AWS’s mission to provide resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud solutions, thereby enhancing our mutual engagement in customer success and technological advancement.

Solution Components

Our solution comes with the following components that – altogether – form a comprehensive platform for hosting, running, and maintaining your applications on AWS:

  1. A Complete, Highly-Available Cloud Infrastructure, that includes:
    • a Virtual Private Network (VPC) to isolate your Applications and Databases from any other cloud components and resources that exist in your cloud account.
    • an ECS Cluster that orchestrates the execution of all your application and data services (including the on-demand, scheduled, and one-off services)
    • an Auto-Scaling group of EC2 instances (virtual servers) acting as a hosting platform for your application services
    • a managed database hosting on RDS instance (or a cluster) with data replication and backup
    • a Secret Vault for all your application secrets
    • a Secret Vault per application service / container, to store the service-specific secret values
    • an SSL certificate for your web applications and web endpoints
    • a centralized logging solution based on AWS CloudWatch Logs that provides operational visibility across all of your application services.
  2. A Highly-Available, Load-Balanced, Fault Tolerant implementation achieved by replicating your servers and application components across multiple AWS availability zones.
  3. A Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration (“CI/CD”) pipeline that builds, containerizes, version-labels, and deploys your applications to different cloud environments (“dev”, “staging”, “production”, etc), with version rollback capability.
  4. A Strong Security Posture set up, where all your servers and services are placed in private networks, and only the necessary number of network ports are open to the public – only the Load Balancer ports, through which your applications are accessible by your end users. All exposed ports are protected by Web Application Firewall to ensure proper protection from the malicious actors.