Summary

In this chapter, we learned best practices for deploying Metabase using AWS. We learned how to sign up for a free AWS account and create both root and IAM users to log in with. We created a VPC with the necessary network setup for our application to exist in. Finally, we deployed Metabase using best practices for scalability, availability, cost, logging, and health monitoring.

In other words, we covered a lot in this chapter. If you came into it with no knowledge of AWS, you may feel overwhelmed by all the information covered. If you feel that way, do not worry! Deploying Metabase is a lot more complicated than using it, especially for people with backgrounds in analytics. If you have gotten this far, congratulations! Now we'll get to the fun part, where we will actually set up Metabase to work with our data. We will be covering all of that in the next chapter.