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Project Summary
Our client was running a monolithic Laravel platform on a single virtual private server that suffered from regular downtime during peak traffic spikes. We architected a fully automated containerized AWS infrastructure using Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS Fargate), and Application Load Balancer.
Technical Implementation
- Infrastructure as Code: Utilized Terraform to model the entire VPC, private subnets, security groups, and RDS clusters.
- Containerization: Built multi-stage Dockerfiles optimized for Laravel, separating the PHP-FPM application process and the Nginx web server.
- Automated Scaling: Configured ECS auto-scaling policies based on CPU and memory thresholds, enabling scaling from 2 to 20 containers seamlessly.
Impact & Results
- Achieved a guaranteed 99.99% system availability.
- Reduced monthly server hosting billing costs by 42%.
- Improved code deployment deployment cycles from twice a month to zero-downtime continuous deployment.
Key Outcome Highlights
99.99%
Guaranteed Uptime
42%
Cost Reduction
0
Deployment Errors
2×
Deploy Speed