New Whitepaper: Build a 100% Serverless 3-Tier Infrastructure Using CloudFormation

Scope

DevSecOps has become essential to modern web development. However, infrastructure provisioning and management is often delegated as a side task, resulting in slower development cycles and increased security risks. After helping several clients deploy similar applications and solve similar challenges, I decided to publish the best practices I developed.

Serverless and deployment automation

My goal with this whitepaper is to provide development teams with a quick start and solid baseline for building a reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure to support their web applications. The provided example utilizes serverless services and deployment automation to help reduce costs and accelerate development cycles.

Use cases

The proposed infrastructure has been iteratively improved and tested in a real-world setting as part of a live Shopify application. However, its use case can be applied to many other web applications that consist of a public frontend with a private backend.

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CloudFormation Stacks

The paper goes hand in hand with a series of CloudFormation scripts that I published on GitHub here. You are invited to download or fork the repository and modify it to match your business case. Let me know what you have built with it or when you need any help with the deployment.

Download the full whitepaper here.