This post explores a highly available database architecture deployed on AWS, showcasing its components, deployment strategies, and best practices.
The architecture consists of a multi-AZ design using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, with VPC, public and private subnets, RDS instances, EC2 instance, security groups, and NAT Gateway as key components.
Deployment involves steps like VPC creation, subnet configuration, NAT Gateway deployment, RDS setup, EC2 instance launch, security group configuration, database replication, and testing and monitoring.
Best practices include multi-AZ deployment, security group restrictions, regular backups, IAM roles, monitoring and alerting, automated scaling, and disaster recovery planning.