Hey everyone,
I’ve been working with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) for a while now — mostly building web apps, dashboards, and some fun side projects.
But recently, I hit a point where I realized something:
I could build great apps, but I didn’t fully understand how to make them scale like real-world systems.
That’s what pushed me toward cloud computing, especially AWS (Amazon Web Services).
☁️ Why I Started Learning AWS
At first, AWS looked intimidating. There were too many services — EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFront — and I didn’t even know where to start.
So I took a simple approach:
I picked one of my MERN projects and decided to deploy it on AWS instead of my usual shared hosting or Vercel.
My First Cloud Experiment
The project was a small task management app built with React and Node.
Here’s how I started shifting it to the cloud:
Frontend: I uploaded my React build files to Amazon S3, and set up CloudFront for faster global delivery.
Backend: I deployed my Node.js API using Elastic Beanstalk, so AWS could handle scaling automatically.
Database: I used MongoDB Atlas, connected securely to AWS through environment variables.
It wasn’t smooth at first — I broke things, fixed them, learned about IAM roles, permissions, and how small misconfigurations can take hours to debug
But when it finally worked… seeing my app scale and load faster felt amazi
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