Deploying a Twelve-Factor App with Amazon ECS

Michael Timbs
8 min readAug 20, 2021

Every developer should be familiar with the concepts outlined in The Twelve-Factor App. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building modern SaaS apps.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a great service by AWS that lets us run containerised applications with ease. By defining our Infrastructure as Code with the AWS CDK and by leveraging a service like ECS, we are able to…

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Michael Timbs

Full-stack developer. In love with Typescript and Serverless