Hosting Laravel applications on AWS

A practical AWS architecture for Laravel web traffic, queues, databases, storage and controlled deployments. This guide explains the practical decisions behind it and what those decisions mean for the people using and operating the product.

Treat Laravel as several workloads

HTTP requests, queue workers, scheduled commands and one-off migrations have different runtime needs. Deploying them deliberately prevents background work from starving customer traffic.

Externalise shared state

S3 can hold uploads, RDS can provide relational data and Redis can support sessions or queues. Replaceable application instances make scaling and recovery more predictable.

Automate repeatable releases

Build from locked dependencies, run tests, deploy immutable artefacts where practical and use compatible schema changes. Rollback procedures should cover code and data assumptions.

Give workloads narrow permissions

Use IAM roles instead of long-lived credentials where available. A web process that only reads one bucket should not have broad access across the account.

Monitor from request to dependency

Centralised logs, traces, queue metrics and database visibility help locate failures. Infrastructure health alone cannot tell whether a customer completed checkout.

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