AWS Three-Tier Web App with Auto Scaling — AWS architecture diagram

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Three-tier AWS web application with WAF protection, Application Load Balancer, and Auto Scaling Group distributing traffic across EC2 t3.medium instances in multiple availability zones. User requests flow through WAF and ALB to application servers in private subnets, while static assets are served from S3 and database queries route to RDS Primary with read replica failover. This architecture demonstrates high availability, auto-scaling elasticity, and security best practices using public/private subnet isolation across AZ-1 and AZ-2. Fork this diagram on Diagrams.so to customize instance types, scaling policies, or add additional services like CloudFront or ElastiCache. The multi-AZ RDS setup with read replica ensures database resilience while Auto Scaling Group maintains application performance during traffic spikes.

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This diagram shows a production-grade AWS architecture where user traffic flows through WAF and Application Load Balancer to an Auto Scaling Group of EC2 t3.medium instances across two availability zones. Application servers connect to an RDS Primary database with a read replica for failover, while S3 serves static assets, demonstrating multi-AZ resilience and automatic scaling.

AWS Three-Tier Web App with Auto Scaling

AWSintermediatethree-tier-architectureauto-scalinghigh-availabilityRDSload-balancing
Domain: Cloud AwsAudience: AWS solutions architects designing scalable web applications
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July 24, 2026

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August 26, 2026 at 8:52 AM

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