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You've scaled to 10M requests/day. Suddenly, your DB connection pool is maxed out, and your application is slowing down. This is a common problem in high-scale applications. To solve this, you need to adopt a cloud-native approach.
Setting Up Your AWS Account
To start, you'll need an AWS account. If you don't have one, create it now. Once you have your account, install the AWS CLI using the following command:
pip install awscli
Output:
Collecting awscli
Downloading awscli-1.27.94-py3.tar.gz (1.5 MB)
Installing collected packages: awscli
Installing the [Serverless Framework](https://www.
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Aaron Vasquez
AuthorDevOps and platform engineer. Spent the last 6 years untangling CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and observability stacks. Writes tutorials covering the full deployment path from laptop to production.
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