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Three-Tier Web Application

The three-tier pattern separates a web app into a presentation tier, an application tier, and a data tier so each scales and fails independently. On AWS you can realize the exact same logical design with very different building blocks — pick the variant below to compare a pay-per-request serverless stack against a classic always-on VM fleet.

AWS Web

The three-tier pattern separates a web app into a presentation tier, an application tier, and a data tier so each scales and fails independently. On AWS you can realize the exact same logical design with very different building blocks — pick the variant below to compare a pay-per-request serverless stack against a classic always-on VM fleet.

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