Cloud hosting with AWS
Cloud hosting with AWS suits portals, web applications and shops with fluctuating load or high availability needs.
Suitable projects
Amazon Web Services scales computing power, databases and storage on demand. For a classic corporate website, a well-managed server is often cheaper.
Typical building blocks
EC2 or container services
managed RDS databases with automatic backups
S3 for files and media
CloudFront as the CDN
load balancers for resilience
Data protection and location
Systems run in the Frankfurt region (eu-central-1) under a data processing agreement. As AWS is a US company, your data protection officer should assess its use.
Security and costs
Under the shared responsibility model, AWS secures the infrastructure and we handle the configuration. Permissions follow the principle of least privilege. Data is encrypted, access logged.
Budgets and cost alerts prevent surprises on the invoice.
Approach
The infrastructure is defined as code, for example in Terraform, with one template for staging and production.