Supported Service Types on AWS

Flightcontrol provides a better developer experience for you to deploy and manage your services on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

We deploy several different types of AWS services for you:

• Web Servers
• Workers or Private Servers
• Databases
• Static Websites
• Redis

If you want to use AWS Services that are not supported - you can configure these in your own AWS account. For instance, you may have an existing ElasticSearch cluster that you want to use with your Flightcontrol services. You could set the URL to the ElasticSearch cluster in your flightcontrol.json config file or in the Flightcontrol dashboard, and everything will work as expected, running in the same AWS acccount.

The type you see next to each service is the corresponding Flightcontrol type, relevant for setting up the flightcontrol.json config file. For more about configuring Flightcontrol see the Using Code or Using the Dashboard pages.

Web Server

type: fargate

• run web services in Fargate containers
• auto https
• custom domains
• automatic CloudFront CDN
• autoscaling, zero downtime deploys, self-healing
• preview environments

For production use, we recommend running a minimum of two web servers for high availability. We also recommend using an instance size with at least 1 vCPU and 4 gigs of memory. Otherwise, you may see performance issues. This does depend on your application and workload, so you may need to experiment with different instance sizes.

Worker or Private Server

type: fargate-worker

• run private servers in Fargate containers that don’t expose an HTTP endpoint
• autoscaling, zero downtime deploys, self-healing

Runs a long running process that fetches data from another service

Database

type: rds

• database: postgres, mysql, or maria
• automatically add the DATABASE_URL connection string to one or more Fargate services
• Daily backups enabled by default with 35 day backup retention

Static Websites

type: static

• easily host a static site, like a create-react-app or Redwood.js frontend
• high performance, powered by CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Redis

type: elasticache

• configure a Redis cache using AWS Elasticache
• spins up a Redis cluster with two nodes for high availability