At some point in your cloud journey, you move beyond just deploying servers…

…and start thinking about observability.

Because building systems is one thing.

Understanding how they behave in real time is another.

That’s where tools like Grafana come in.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through how I deployed Grafana on AWS using ECS with Fargate a fully managed container service without managing any servers.

What We’ll Be Building

In this project, we will:

Deploy Grafana using containers

Use Amazon ECS with Fargate (serverless compute for containers)

Expose the application on port 3000

Configure networking and security

Access Grafana via our browser

By the end, we’ll have a live Grafana dashboard running in the cloud.

Why This Matters

This project introduces you to:

Containerized applications

Serverless container orchestration

Networking in ECS

Security group configuration

Observability tools (Grafana)

These are real-world DevOps and Cloud Engineering skills.

Architecture Overview

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