# Infrastructure deployment components
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What are all the different components that will need configuring to support your application?
+ Region: What AWS Region or Regions are needed?
+ High Availability (HA): What Availability Zones will be used?
+ Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): What is the CIDR block for the VPC?
+ What server instances are needed?
  + Authenticated Reverse Proxy (ARP): OS, AMI, instance type, subnet ID, security group, ingress port?
  + Application Deployment Tool server: OS, AMI, instance type, subnet ID, security group, ingress port (Chef, Puppet) or egress port (Ansible, Saltstack) port?
  + Amazon RDS with MySQL: DB version, Usage Type, instance class, subnet ID, security group, DB instance ID, storage size, Multi-AZ, Auth type, encryption?
  + Storage: Is your app stateless? Do you require S3 buckets? Do you require persistent storage? Do you require data at rest encryption on your EBS volumes? Do you require DB encryption?
  + External (to the Managed Services VPC) server endpoints: SMTP? LDAP? 
  + Network requirements: Network filtering (based on security groups?)? Web traffic inspection (inbound?outbound?)?
+ Tagging: What tags should be used to group resources into logical collections? For example, all resources for an application stack. Select tags for your use case; for example, `backup=true` to enable backups. Additionally, you must use the tag `name=value` in order for any EC2 instances you create to display a name in the console.
+ Security groups: 
  + What security groups are needed?
  + Security group ingress rules?
  + Security group egress rules?