§01Purpose / Problem
Moving an application from local development into a real cloud environment takes more than writing code. It requires understanding how the application is packaged, deployed, hosted, and managed.
§02What I Built
ClaimZero streamlines the processing and management of claims, containerised with Docker and deployed to AWS, using Amazon ECR to store the container image, Amazon ECS to run the application, and Terraform to define the infrastructure as code, alongside the AWS networking and deployment concepts needed to get it running end to end.
§03Outcome / Impact
The application was successfully deployed to AWS, providing practical, hands-on experience taking an application from a local development environment into a cloud-hosted one.
§04What I Learned
ClaimZero showed that software engineering extends beyond writing application code. Understanding how applications are packaged, deployed, hosted, and managed is part of building production-oriented systems.