Build a serverless multi-region, active-active backend solution — within a VPC
A VPC improves privacy and security — especially for apps with strict compliance and audit requirements or sensitive data
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5 min readMay 4, 2018
Last week I published the third part of my series on building resilient architectures — with a focus on how to build a multi-region, active-active serverless backend.
In response to the articles, I was asked several times to show how to deploy the serverless multi-region, active-active backend inside an Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). I thought it would be great if I pushed our approach a bit further and enhance the solution to answer some of these questions.
Typically, you use a VPC so that resources inside the VPC cannot be accessed from the public Internet. These resources could be AWS service resources, such as your data warehouses, your cache clusters or your database.
