A Practical Guide To Deploying A Complex, Production Level, Three-tier Architecture On AWS

Multi-tiered architectures have become the most popular ways of designing and building applications in the cloud. This is primarily because they offer high availability, replication, flexibility, security and many other numerous benefits. This is as opposed to single-tier architectures which typically involves packaging all the requisite components of a software application into a single server.

The most popular multi-tier design pattern is a three-tier architecture. The three-tier architecture consists of the following layers:

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  Presentation Layer: This is the outermost layer …

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