A battle-tested, production-ready AWS infrastructure foundation built on years of real-world experience managing complex, high-scale systems.

awesome-foundation is a collection of production-proven AWS infrastructure patterns and best practices, curated by @allixsenos from years of running large-scale applications in production.

This repository represents the distilled knowledge of managing AWS infrastructure that has successfully handled 100,000+ requests per second across many complex services in production environments.

The stack leverages the following AWS services, orchestrated through CloudFormation:

• AWS ECS Fargate - Container orchestration without managing servers
• AWS RDS Aurora - Highly available, scalable relational database
• AWS CloudFormation - Infrastructure as Code for reproducible deployments

All components have been battle-tested in production scenarios, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

The awesome-foundation ecosystem consists of several repositories that work together to provide a complete AWS infrastructure solution:

1. dns - Managing DNS records in a config-as-code way ✅ Published
2. core-infrastructure - Templates for base networking and foundational infrastructure ✅ Published
3. web-service - Example of running an ECS Fargate task on this foundation 🚧 Q1 2026
4. rds-aurora - Example of running an RDS Aurora cluster on this foundation 🚧 Q1 2026

This foundation is designed for:

• Teams entering the AWS space looking for a proven starting point
• Engineers who want to skip common pitfalls and jump straight to production-ready patterns
• Organizations seeking an opinionated, well-architected infrastructure foundation
• Anyone who wants to build on a solid foundation with room to grow

awesome-foundation provides an opinionated launching pad that:

• ✅ Sets you up with production-ready infrastructure from day one
• ✅ Gives you room to grow and customize as you explore AWS
• ✅ Avoids common mistakes through battle-tested patterns
• ✅ Reduces time-to-production for new projects
• ✅ Follows AWS best practices and Well-Architected Framework principles

Rather than starting from scratch or navigating countless AWS services alone, you get a solid foundation built on real-world production experience.

Coming soon: Infrastructure templates, deployment guides, and best practices documentation.

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

Built and maintained by @allixsenos based on years of production experience scaling AWS infrastructure to handle massive traffic and complex service architectures.