High Availability Web Application on AWS (EC2, ELB & CloudFront)

📌 Project Overview

This project demonstrates the deployment of a highly available web application on AWS using EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer, and Amazon CloudFront. A sample café website is hosted on multiple EC2 instances and distributed globally using CloudFront for improved performance and reliability.

🖥️ Application Setup

• Launched two EC2 instances using Amazon Linux
• Configured user data scripts to automatically deploy the café website
• Verified website accessibility through public IPs

🔐 Security Configuration

• Configured Security Groups to allow HTTP traffic
• Ensured secure and controlled access to EC2 instances

⚙️ Load Balancing

• Created a Target Group with health checks
• Configured an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• Verified traffic distribution between EC2 instances

🌍 Content Delivery with CloudFront

• Integrated Amazon CloudFront with the Load Balancer
• Used CloudFront distribution for global content delivery
• Improved application performance and availability worldwide

🛠️ Technologies Used

• AWS EC2
• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• Amazon CloudFront
• Security Groups
• User Data scripts

✅ Outcome

Successfully deployed a globally accessible, highly available web application with improved performance using AWS Cloud infrastructure.