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# Overview

Flapjax provides a flexible, production-grade hosting architecture that can be deployed either in **Flapjax’s AWS environment** or within **your organization’s AWS account**. Both hosting options deliver the same secure, scalable, and fully managed platform—while giving you the choice of who controls the underlying AWS infrastructure.

### **Hosting Options**

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#### **Flapjax’s AWS Account**

A fully managed, hands-off hosting experience where all infrastructure runs inside Flapjax’s AWS environment. Flapjax handles provisioning, monitoring, scaling, security, and ongoing operations end-to-end.
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#### **Inside the Client’s AWS Account**

Flapjax deploys and manages the platform inside *your* AWS account. You maintain governance, cost visibility, and compliance alignment, while Flapjax manages the infrastructure and application runtime.
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**Provisioned Infrastructure**

A detailed breakdown of the core AWS components Flapjax provisions in either hosting model—VPC, EKS, databases, caching, IAM, ingress, and more.

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### **Cost Optimisation**

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#### **VAT / Tax Registration**

Ensuring proper tax configuration to avoid unnecessary surcharges in AWS billing.
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#### **Spot Instances**

Use of Spot compute resources to reduce EKS node costs.
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#### **Reserved RDS Instances**

Long-term database cost optimisation strategies through reserved capacity.
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