verdaccio/website/docs/amazon.md

---
id: amazon
title: "Amazon Web Services"
---

This document describes several approaches for deploying Verdaccio in the AWS cloud.

## EC2 {#ec2}

[CloudFormation template for deploying this stack.](https://github.com/verdaccio/verdaccio/blob/master/contrib/aws/cloudformation-ec2-efs.yaml)

Architecture:

```
Clients
 |
 | (HTTPS)
 v
Application Load Balancer
 |
 | (HTTP)
 v
EC2 Auto Scaling Group (Amazon Linux 2)
Docker image (Verdaccio)
 |
 | (NFS)
 v
Elastic File System
```

Architecture notes:
* Deploy this stack into the region closest to your users for maximum performance.
* We use an auto scaling group primarily for self-healing. The system requirements of Verdaccio are pretty low, so it's unlikely you'll need multiple instances to handle traffic load.
* Because Amazon Linux 2 doesn't include Node, we run Verdaccio as a Docker image rather than natively on the instance. This is faster and more secure than relying on third party package sources for Node.
* Elastic File System is cheap and stateful, and works across AZs. An alternative would be the [third-party S3 storage plugin](https://github.com/remitly/verdaccio-s3-storage).
  * For backup, use AWS Backup

Estimated monthly cost for a small installation (in us-east-1):
* ALB (1 LCU average): $22.265/mo
* EC2 (t3.nano): $3.796/mo
* EBS (8gb): $0.80/mo
* EFS (5gb): $1.5/mo
* Data transfer: (10gb): $0.9/mo
* **TOTAL:** Under $30/mo

## ECS {#ecs}

You can deploy Verdaccio as a task with an [ECS Volume](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/using_data_volumes.html) for persistent storage.

Note: Fargate doesn't support persistent volumes, so you have to use the S3 storage plugin.

## EKS {#eks}

See the documentation pages on [Kubernetes](kubernetes) and [Docker](docker).