Author: Arafat Olayiwola — 5x AWS Community Builder
Stack: Python 3.12 · FastAPI · Docker · AWS ECS Fargate · ALB · RDS · ElastiCache · EventBridge
Description: A complete, battle-tested AWS deployment walkthrough for containerized Python APIs — ECS Fargate, Application Load Balancer with ACM, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, SSM secrets, and EventBridge-triggered scheduled jobs. ~$86/month, no servers to manage.
I've helped dozens of teams get their first serious AWS deployment off the ground. The same questions keep coming up: "Should I use Lambda or ECS?", "Where do I put my secrets?", "How do I run cron jobs without a server?"
This article is the end-to-end answer. It covers the exact architecture I ship for containerized API services in production — one that:
