AWS Applications Deployment Basics

Part 2: Setup NGINX

Introduction

In the previous post of this series “AWS Application Deployment Basics”, we setup a PostgreSQL database and then we connect to it via a Node.js application.

However, the Node.js application is running on the same machine and database access is local for it. It is a totally valid setup and because it is on the same machine, the access is straight forward. But, have applications and databases running on separate machines is also a very common setup and we will cover…