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Deploying Flagsmith on AWS

Overview​

We recommend running Flagsmith on AWS using the following AWS services:

  • ECS/Fargate for running the Docker image
  • RDS/Aurora/Postgres for the database
  • Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic

We have Pulumi scripts available for AWS deployments. Please get in touch if these are of interest.

AWS Infrastructure Architecture​

AWS Architecture

ECS​

Unless you have specific requirements, we recommend running the unified Docker image.

It's best to study our docker-compose file in order to set up the base environment variables. Further environment variables are described here.

Run a single ECS service with at least two Fargate instances running for failover. For more info on Fargate sizes, see our scaling page.

If you are using health-checks, make sure to use /health as the health-check endpoint.

RDS/Aurora​

We run in production on PostgreSQL version 11; Aurora release 3.x. When starting for the first time, the application will create that database schema automatically. Schema upgrades will also happen seamlessly during application server upgrades.

Application Load Balancer​

We direct all traffic through an AWS ALB to the relevant ECS service.