Deploying a High-Traffic Django & Stripe E-commerce Website on AWS ECS with Terraform [Part 7]

Deploy a production-ready Django & Stripe e-commerce platform on AWS ECS with Terraform. Discover best practices for containerization, security, monitoring, and auto-scaling in this comprehensive infrastructure as a code guide

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In this article, we’ll explore how to deploy a scalable, secure, and highly available Django e-commerce website with Stripe integration using AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) and Terraform. We’ll cover the entire infrastructure setup, from containerization to production deployment.

Architecture Overview

Our infrastructure will include:

- AWS ECS with Fargate for container orchestration

- Application Load Balancer for traffic distribution

- CloudWatch for monitoring and logging

- Parameter Store for secrets management

- VPC with public and private subnets

- Auto-scaling capabilities

Prerequisites

- AWS Account with appropriate permissions