Laravel +
AWS
: The Real Architecture Behind Scalable Web Apps

A deep dive into the AWS infrastructure patterns that let Laravel applications scale reliably, covering queues, caching, deployments, and cost control.

Key Takeaways

• ✓Store all user files in Amazon S3 and offload background jobs to SQS, the two changes that make a Laravel app ready to scale beyond a single server.
• ✓Deploy containerised Laravel on ECS Fargate with rolling updates via GitHub Actions and ECR, enabling zero downtime releases in under 6 minutes.
• ✓Replace custom built auth with Amazon Cognito, handles sign up, sign in, MFA, and social login with no ongoing maintenance overhead.
• ✓Secure all credentials with Secrets Manager and IAM instance roles, eliminate hardcoded .env secrets and API keys from version control entirely.
• ✓Case study: page response time dropped from 1,100ms to 490ms, 3x traffic handled without intervention, and 97% uptime over 12 months post migration.