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For many developers, the experience of deploying an application consists of finding a server to host the app, copying it over, and serving using some system like Nginx or Apache.


And that's ok!


It'll work for small applications that aren't meant to handle large loads.


However, if your product is growing or you're adding a new service to an existing, mature application, chances are you're going to need to learn how to scale your web application.


You can do it manually, of course, but Amazon Web Services provides great tools for managing and scaling your applications automatically.


In this tutorial we'll walk through how to set up those services in the AWS environment, enabling your web application to maintain reliability whether big or small.