How to Design and Create a Secure Cloud Environment with AWS: A Comprehensive Guide

I have personally seen the growing pains experienced by e-commerce companies moving from on-premise to cloud infrastructure. While security is important, cost optimization is even more so, particularly for a business that is expanding quickly. This guide describes how to design and develop an AWS cloud environment for a developing e-commerce business in a secure and economical manner.

By NoisyNest Digital

Recognizing Your Requirements: The E-Commerce Case Study

Let us take "Good Guy Store," a fictional online retailer that is expanding quickly. The on-premise infrastructure they currently have trouble keeping up with the volume of users and the amount of data they need to store. The Good Guy Store intends to switch to a scalable and secure AWS cloud environment in order to address these problems.

Creating a Scalable and Secure Architecture

FIRST: Establishing the Base: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Establishing a safe and segregated network segment with a VPC is the initial stage. Web servers, databases, and content management systems (CMS) are just a few of the resources that will be housed in this VPC. Security groups that function as firewalls and regulate both incoming and outgoing traffic can be put in place to further improve security.

SECOND: Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon EC2 for Front-End and Back-End

• Front-end: The website's front-end, which serves static content like product images and user interfaces, will be hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. We can use Amazon Lightsail, a managed compute service that is perfect for workloads that are predictable, to optimize costs.
• Back-end: We can use scalable EC2 instances for the dynamic back-end that manages user accounts, product data, and transaction processing. Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) will be used to effectively divide up incoming traffic among these instances. By doing this, high availability is guaranteed, and the overloading of any single instance is avoided.

THIRD: Content Management: Juggling the Needs of the Team and Users

• Customer-Facing CMS: A great way to offer a user-friendly content…