Why should you care?

Startups and e-commerce clients often standardize on AWS — MeanVerse must deploy there efficiently.

See it live — copy this example

Paste into your MeanVerse project (Angular + Express + MongoDB), then run with ng serve / node / mongosh as noted.

# ECS task definition excerpt
{
  "family": "meanverse-api",
  "containerDefinitions": [{
    "name": "api",
    "image": "123456789.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/meanverse-api:1.4.0",
    "portMappings": [{ "containerPort": 3000 }],
    "secrets": [{ "name": "MONGO_URI", "valueFrom": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:123:secret:meanverse/mongo" }],
    "logConfiguration": { "logDriver": "awslogs", "options": { "awslogs-group": "/ecs/meanverse-api" } }
  }]
}
# S3 bucket meanverse-web + CloudFront origin

What happened?

• ECS runs Docker tasks from ECR image.
• Secrets Manager injects MONGO_URI.
• CloudWatch Logs collect stdout.
• S3/CloudFront serves Angular globally.

Practice next

1. Push image to ECR.
2. Create ECS service behind ALB target group.
3. Store secrets in Secrets Manager.
4. Add WAF on CloudFront for OWASP rules.
5. Use Fargate spot for non-prod cost savings.

Remember

ECS/EKS + ALB + Secrets Manager pattern. S3/CloudFront for static SPA. CloudWatch for logs and alarms.

E-commerce AWS native

MeanVerse shop runs entirely in us-east-1 with auto scale.

Outcome: Black Friday scales ECS tasks; CloudFront caches product images.