How to deploy Strapi to AWS

Run Strapi on ECS Fargate behind an Application Load Balancer and keep its relational database in Amazon RDS.

Prerequisites

A Git repository containing your application and its production build command.
A Ravion account with your AWS account connected. Start free at Ravion signup.
The Ravion CLI installed and authenticated. See CLI installation.

The examples use my-org/my-app as a placeholder. Replace it with your repository before applying the config.

Set up this Strapi app for Ravion ECS hosting.

Configure the deployment

Ravion provisions the network, ECS service, and RDS database in your AWS account. This example uses Railpack for the build. Use build_source: dockerfile instead when you need a custom Dockerfile. Strapi builds with npm run build and starts with npm run start. The example includes PostgreSQL RDS. After the first apply, put the RDS endpoint and credentials into the service’s runtime variables or a Secrets Manager secret.

ravion.yaml

project:
  givenId: strapi-app
  name: Strapi app
environments:
  - givenId: production
    name: Production
    moduleInstances:
      - givenId: network
        name: Network
        type: rvn-aws-network
        version: 1.0.0
        input:
          aws_account_id: ravion-prod
          aws_region: us-east-1
          name: strapi-production
      - givenId: database
        name: PostgreSQL
        type: rvn-rds
        version: 1.0.0
        input:
          network:
            moduleGivenIdRef: network
          name: strapi-production
          db_name: strapi
          username: strapiadmin
          engine_major_version: "15"
      - givenId: cluster
        name: ECS cluster
        type: rvn-ecs-cluster
        version: 1.0.0
        input:
          network:
            moduleGivenIdRef: network
          name: strapi-production
      - givenId: web
        name: Strapi web service
        type: rvn-ecs-web
        version: 1.0.0
        input:
          cluster:
            moduleGivenIdRef: cluster
          name: strapi-production-web
          build_source: railpack
          source_repo: my-org/my-strapi-app
          railpack_build_cmd: npm run build
          railpack_start_cmd: npm run start
          container_port: 1337
          health_check_path: /_health
          fargate_size:
            vcpu: 1
            memory_gb: 2

Use a Secrets Manager secret for DATABASE_CLIENT, DATABASE_HOST, DATABASE_PORT, DATABASE_NAME, DATABASE_USERNAME, and DATABASE_PASSWORD. The current module schema accepts runtime secrets, but does not expose a typed RDS output-to-secret wiring field; create the secret from the RDS outputs before applying the service.

Apply and connect your domain

ravion project create --given-id strapi-app --name "Strapi app"
ravion project config apply strapi-app --file ravion.yaml --dry-run
ravion project config apply strapi-app --file ravion.yaml

Use custom domains for the ALB hostname and certificate.

Next steps

Custom domains

Point a domain at your deployed service and manage its certificate.

Project config

Preview and apply Ravion configuration from source control.

Pipelines

Add approvals, migrations, and deployment automation.

Logs and metrics

Inspect deploy output and production health in Ravion.

​Prerequisites

​Configure the deployment

​Apply and connect your domain

​Next steps