FRONTEND AND BACKEND CONNECTION IN AWS ECS

Hello Joash,

If your frontend and backend containers are hosted in the same ECS task, your frontend application can talk to your backend container through localhost.

If your frontend and backend containers are hosted in separate ECS services, you have multiple options:

1. Add a load balancer to your backend service using the Service Load Balancing feature and use the LoadBalancer FQDN to talk to your backend service from your frontend application.
2. You can use ECS service discovery feature to provide DNS to your services without using a Load Balancer.

For more info, please follow this Network Between Amazon ECS Services documentation.

If you have further questions, please elaborate your architecture design so we can advise better.

Thank you!

Hi, to connect your backend and frontend in AWS ECS architecture, you can follow these steps:

1- Create a task definition for your backend and frontend services, specifying the Docker images and other required parameters for each service.

2- Create a cluster in AWS ECS and deploy your backend and frontend services to the cluster.

3- Use a load balancer or a service discovery service, such as AWS App Mesh, to route traffic to your backend and frontend services.

4- Use Amazon VPC and security groups to control access to your services and secure the communication between them.

5- Use AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild to automate the deployment of your services to the ECS cluster.

Overall, the key to connecting your backend and frontend services in AWS ECS is to use the right combination of AWS services to manage the deployment, routing, and security of your services.

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