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AWS CDK Transit Gateway Multi-Environment VPC: Dev, Staging, Prod on One TGW

Running dev, staging, and prod on separate VPCs sounds clean until you need them to talk — and your Aurora failover has never actually been tested. This post walks through a real CDK TypeScript stack wiring Transit Gateway, Aurora Global Database, ECS Fargate, and Global Accelerator across three env

6 Apr 2026 Rahul Ladumor

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Senior AWS Solution Architect, 6x AWS certified including GenAI Developer Professional. 9+ years building production infrastructure. Writes about what actually works — trade-offs, cost realities, and failure modes included.

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AWS CDK Web App Deployment: VPC, Fargate, Aurora, and CloudFront Wired Together

Most CDK tutorials stop at 'it deployed.' This one covers the full aws cdk web application deployment stack - VPC isolation, Fargate on private subnets, Aurora with KMS, CloudFront, Secrets Manager rotation - and the six operational gaps that will wake you up at 2am if you skip them.

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