AWS Setup & Architecture (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)

I design and build AWS environments for companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and across the Emirates — starting with the part most teams skip: account structure and IAM. You get an AWS Organizations layout with separate accounts for production and staging, IAM roles instead of shared root credentials, MFA enforced, and CloudTrail logging on from day one. That foundation is what keeps an AWS bill auditable and a security review painless.

On the workload side I pick the right compute for the job rather than defaulting to one service: EC2 for steady long-running servers, ECS on Fargate for containerized apps without server management, and Lambda behind API Gateway for event-driven or spiky traffic. Data lands in RDS PostgreSQL or MySQL with automated backups and Multi-AZ where uptime justifies it, and static assets serve from S3 through CloudFront. For UAE companies, deploying into the AWS Middle East (UAE) region — me-central-1 — keeps data inside the country and brings single-digit-millisecond latency to local users, which matters for data residency expectations and for snappy apps alike.

Cost discipline is built in, not bolted on: right-sized instances, savings plans where usage is predictable, S3 lifecycle policies, and billing alerts so a free-zone startup or mainland SME never gets a surprise five-figure AED invoice. If you want the whole environment reproducible, I can deliver it as Terraform so every resource is version-controlled and a second environment is one command away.

How it works

1. 1
   Architecture review call

   We map your application, traffic profile, compliance needs and budget to a concrete AWS service selection.

2. 2
   Design document

   You get a written architecture with a monthly cost estimate in USD and AED before anything is built.

3. 3
   Build-out

   I create the accounts, networking, compute, database and storage — in me-central-1 or the region that fits — with IAM and logging from the start.

4. 4
   Migration and handover

   Your app is deployed, DNS cut over, and your team walked through the console, the costs and the Terraform code if included.