Secure Your Website: Best Practices for AWS Deployment

The author shares their perspective on securely deploying a simple web page, focusing on four critical areas: Dockerization, CI/CD Pipeline, Running on ECS Fargate, and SSL-Enabled Domain. They also aim to set up the website to be Highly Available (HA), ensuring reliability and uptime even during traffic spikes or failures. The author uses a repository to create a simple front, back, and nginx architecture and demonstrates how to set up the website securely. The author starts by explaining Dockerization, which ensures consistency across different environments, essential for security. They create a docker-compose.yml file to run all containers under the same network and expose only necessary ports. Next, they discuss the CI/CD Pipeline, automating the deployment process from building a Docker image to pushing it into Amazon ECR, reducing human error and improving security. The author then explains how to set up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, automating the process of building and pushing Docker images to Amazon ECR. They also discuss running the application on ECS Fargate, utilizing Amazon's serverless environment with built-in scaling and isolation. Finally, they explain how to configure a custom domain with SSL, ensuring encrypted communication between the user and the website. To ensure high availability for the website, the author recommends hosting servers in different availability zones in AWS and configuring IP instances accordingly. However, they acknowledge that this involves many steps and recommends seeking help from GenAI for detailed instructions. The author concludes that while the process may be challenging, following the outlined steps and seeking help from GenAI can help create a secure and highly available website.