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Deploying Expense Tracker to AWS

Deploying our full-stack application to AWS using EC2 and RDS.

In this series

•Deploying Expense Tracker to AWS
•Deploying Expense Tracker to Google Cloud
•Deploying Scala & React Apps to Shared Hosting

AWS offers robust services for hosting our application. We'll use Elastic Beanstalk for the backend and S3 + CloudFront for the frontend.

Backend (Elastic Beanstalk)

Package the App: Create a Docker image or a fat JAR.
```
sbt assembly
```
Create Environment: Use the AWS Console or CLI to create a new Elastic Beanstalk environment for Java.
Upload and Deploy: Upload your JAR file. Beanstalk will handle the provisioning and scaling.
Database (RDS): Create an RDS instance for MySQL. Configure the security group to allow access from your Beanstalk instances.

Frontend (S3 + CloudFront)

Create S3 Bucket: Create a bucket and enable "Static Website Hosting".
Upload Build: Run npm run build and upload the dist folder to S3.
CloudFront: Create a CloudFront distribution pointing to your S3 bucket. This provides SSL (HTTPS) and global caching.

CI/CD

You can automate this using AWS CodePipeline or GitHub Actions.