Laravel + AWS Integration
Scale your Laravel application with AWS services: S3 for storage, SES for email, SQS for queues, and EC2 for servers.
AWS Services for Laravel
S3
File storage and backups. CDN-ready with CloudFront.
SES
Bulk email sending at pennies per message.
SQS
Managed queue service for background jobs.
EC2
Virtual servers that scale with demand.
Why AWS for Laravel
- Infinitely scalable infrastructure
- 50+ services in one ecosystem
- HIPAA and SOC2 compliance available
- Pay only for what you use
Popular Configurations
EC2 + RDS + S3 + CloudFront + SES
Auto Scaling + Load Balancer + ElastiCache + RDS Read Replicas
Integration planning
Plan the Laravel AWS integration before coding.
AWS gives Laravel teams powerful building blocks, but it also adds infrastructure decisions that affect cost, security, deployment, and recovery. Somnio scopes the smallest reliable architecture first, then chooses AWS services that match the application instead of overbuilding a cloud diagram.
During discovery, Somnio also checks authentication, permissions, admin visibility, queue workers, logging, test coverage, deployment steps, and provider limits. That prevents a quick proof of concept from becoming a fragile production dependency that only one developer understands.
For existing Laravel applications, we also review the current codebase, environment setup, deployment workflow, and data model before adding the new provider. That context helps avoid duplicate records, inconsistent status fields, missing retries, and integrations that work in development but fail under real traffic.
When the integration is part of a larger product, we also identify which work should be automated now and which operational tasks can stay manual until usage proves the need.
That keeps the first release useful without making the provider integration harder to replace, extend, or troubleshoot later.
Data flow
We map file storage, queues, email, database access, logs, backups, cache, and deployment boundaries before moving workloads to AWS. That keeps Laravel configuration predictable across local, staging, and production environments.
Operations
AWS operations need IAM boundaries, backup policies, monitoring, queue workers, deployment scripts, and cost awareness. We plan those controls so the system is maintainable after launch.
Handoff
The handoff includes environment variables, IAM notes, deployment steps, service diagrams, backup expectations, queue worker commands, and documentation for future scaling decisions.