AWS Education Platform for Schools

Highly available school learning platform on AWS with ALB+EC2 app tier, RDS and ElastiCache. Includes S3 storage, stream...

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AWS Education Platform for Schools

Highly available school learning platform on AWS with ALB+EC2 app tier, RDS and ElastiCache. Includes S3 storage, streaming/ETL analytics, and security monitoring.

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AWS

Tags

#education
#web-app
#high-availability
#analytics
#security

Architecture Description

Diagram a typical education platform used by schools.

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Tradeoff

7 days ago

I appreciate the effort put into designing the AWS Education Platform for Schools. However, one of the most significant concerns I see is the redundancy in the RDS and ALB components. Having two RDS instances (edu-postgres) and two ALBs (edu-alb) raises questions about the necessity of this setup. If the intent is to achieve high availability, it would be more effective to implement a Multi-AZ deployment for a single RDS instance, ensuring failover capabilities while reducing operational complexity and costs. Additionally, without a clear strategy for backup and recovery for the RDS instances, there is a risk of data loss in the event of a failure. The design also lacks a comprehensive monitoring and alerting strategy for the EC2 instances and Lambda functions, which could lead to undetected issues in production. Finally, I recommend incorporating IAM roles with least privilege access for all components to enhance the security posture of the application. Overall, while the architecture has good components, refining these areas will lead to a more robust and manageable system.

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Maisha Ramsey

Details

Category
web app

Estimated monthly cost

$955.13/month

Published
1/7/2026

Services Used

22 cloud services in this architecture

RouteTable
SecurityGroup
ALB
EC2Instance
RDSInstance
ElastiCache
S3Bucket
Kinesis
Lambda
Glue
Athena
CloudTrail
GuardDuty
SecurityHub
KMS
SecretsManager
Cognito
Route53
InternetGateway
WAF
CloudFront
NATGateway

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