Deploy to AWS

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI configured (aws configure)
• Credentials with permissions for: ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, S3, ECR, VPC, EC2

Deploy

cooper deploy --env prod --cloud aws

What gets created

Resource	Service	Spec
VPC + subnets	Networking	2 AZs, internet gateway
Security group	Firewall	Ports 80, 443, 4000 + internal
RDS	Database	db.t3.micro, Postgres 15
ElastiCache	Cache	cache.t3.micro, Redis
SNS topics	Pub/Sub	Per topic declaration
SQS queues	Queues	Per queue declaration
S3 bucket	Storage	Standard
ECR repo	Container registry	For app image
ECS Fargate	Compute	256 CPU, 512 MB, auto-scaling

Environment variables

Set automatically on the ECS task:

• COOPER_DB_MAIN_URL — RDS connection string
• COOPER_VALKEY_URL — ElastiCache endpoint
• COOPER_ENV — environment name

Cost estimate

+ RDS Postgres (db.t3.micro)     ~$28/mo
+ ElastiCache (cache.t3.micro)   ~$12/mo
+ ECS Fargate                    ~$0/mo (pay per use)