Moving off Laravel Vapor to ECS cut the AWS bill by a third
ECS with GitHub Actions CI/CD, autoscaling, an application load balancer and CloudFront replaced Laravel Vapor — same application, $400/month instead of $600–700.
Four projects documented end to end — the problem, the AWS architecture that solved it, and what the client got out of it.
ECS with GitHub Actions CI/CD, autoscaling, an application load balancer and CloudFront replaced Laravel Vapor — same application, $400/month instead of $600–700.
A multi-AZ Elastic Beanstalk deployment with load balancing, auto scaling and CloudWatch monitoring throughout.
An S3 and CloudFront tracking page backed by API Gateway and Lambda, with third-party order data and RDS authentication.
A self-hosted sending platform wired into Amazon SES for reliable delivery at volume — with bounce handling, monitoring, security and documentation.
The audit is free and the findings are yours to keep. If an ongoing arrangement makes sense after that, the tiers are published.