- 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).
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).