# AWS Reference Architecture

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### Cloud Resources Requirements

<table data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th width="188">Products</th><th width="309">Purposes</th><th>Suggested Specification</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services</td><td>Pods to run the applications, cache for user sessions</td><td>m5.large (2 vCPUs, 8GiB RAM)<br>x 3 minimum for k8s</td></tr><tr><td>Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL</td><td>Store system settings, user profiles, audit logs</td><td>db.m5.large (2 vCPUs, 8GiB RAM)<br>x 2 for high availability</td></tr><tr><td>Amazon ElastiCache for Redis</td><td>Store user sessions and usage analytics</td><td>Require approximately 30kB per user. Please refer to <a data-mention href="/pages/c4clmqzHxcQ02HVuiR96">/pages/c4clmqzHxcQ02HVuiR96</a></td></tr><tr><td>(Optional Components)</td><td><p>Amazon S3:</p><ul><li>Storage of the user profile images</li></ul><p>Managed Elasticsearch:</p><ul><li>To support search in Authgear admin portal</li></ul><p>Networking:</p><ul><li>Amazon Web Application Firewall</li><li>Amazon Application / Elastic Load Balancer</li><li>Amazon Cloudfront (CDN)</li></ul><p>CI/CD</p><ul><li>Container registry</li><li>Secret management</li></ul><p>Logging Monitoring tools</p></td><td>N/A</td></tr></tbody></table>


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