At Graphite, we moved from a simple SPA deployment to a robust containerized environment using AWS ECS, enhancing our ability to manage, deploy, and scale our Next.js application.

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Graphite moved from hosting their web app as a single-page application (SPA) in S3 to using AWS ECS to enhance their ability to manage, deploy, and scale their Next.js application. They chose ECS over Vercel due to their preference for keeping their hosting within their AWS VPC, and found that ECS performed just as well as an edge computing setup. Deploying Next.js on ECS offered benefits such as performance, scalability, cost efficiency, consistency, deployment flexibility, and security.

Why we use AWS instead of Vercel to host our Next.js app

Moving away from single-page applications

Migrating to Next.js for enhanced scalability and performance

Streamlining deployment with Next.js on AWS ECS

Maximizing efficiency with Next.js and AWS best practices