AWS Academy Cloud Architecting 3 – Capstone Project

Here’s what I built: 🗃️ Managed Database: Provisioned a MySQL RDS instance in its own isolated database subnets, ready to receive the application data. 🔑 Secure Credentials: Stored all database credentials in AWS Secrets Manager to avoid hardcoding. 🌐 Public Entry: Deployed an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in public subnets to act as the single, secure "front door" for all user traffic. 🔒 Secure Compute: Launched an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) of EC2 instances into private subnets, protecting the web servers from all direct internet access. 📈 Elasticity: Configured the Auto-Scaling Group (ASG) with a target tracking policy to automatically scale out or in based on CPU demand. ⚙️ Data Import: Connected directly to the private instance using SSM Session Manager, then ran the MySQL command to import the sql file into the RDS database. This document contains the prompts to download the "Countrydatadump.sql" file and also the prompts to use in terminal : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oxFlQUyeev3Dgnc8lCZFMEzh1b4Kjmvt-BRkaEXYGBs/edit?usp=sharing