URL Shortener Microservices Architecture — AWS architecture diagram

About This Architecture

Multi-AZ URL shortener microservices architecture using ECS Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache across two availability zones in AWS. Users route through an Internet Gateway and Application Load Balancer to Auth and Redirect microservices running in private subnets, with data persisted in RDS Primary/Standby, DynamoDB Redirect Tables, and Redis caching layers. This design demonstrates fault tolerance, auto-scaling, and separation of concerns—Auth handles user credentials via RDS while Redirect manages URL mappings through DynamoDB and caching. Fork and customize this diagram on Diagrams.so to adapt subnet ranges, instance types, or add additional microservices. The cross-AZ replication ensures zero-downtime failover and meets production SLA requirements.

People also ask

How do you design a highly available URL shortener microservices architecture on AWS across multiple availability zones?

This diagram shows a production-grade URL shortener using ECS Fargate microservices (Auth and Redirect) deployed across two AZs with an Application Load Balancer routing traffic. Data is persisted in RDS Primary/Standby for authentication, DynamoDB with cross-region replicas for URL mappings, and ElastiCache Redis for caching, ensuring fault tolerance and low-latency responses.

URL Shortener Microservices Architecture

AWSadvancedmicroservicesECS Fargatemulti-AZhigh availabilityURL shortener
Domain: Cloud AwsAudience: AWS solutions architects designing highly available microservices
1 views0 favoritesPublic

Created by

July 22, 2026

Updated

August 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM

Type

network

Need a custom architecture diagram?

Describe your architecture in plain English and get a production-ready Draw.io diagram in seconds. Works for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more.

Generate with AI

AI-generated. Verify before production use. Learn more

Report this diagram