DCSIL

We will use EC2 to run our service using docker containers when we need to achieve more scale. Running in EC2 will allow us to easily create multiple servers for the application, front them with an elastic load balancer and use auto scaling to scale them as necessary. It allows us to achieve scale while also staying within the AWS cloud, which cannot be done with any other service.

Using docker will allow us to set up the local dev environment easily. We will be able to spin up our service, including with a local db for testing with a single command. It also gives us an easy to manage isolated environment. Docker is the easiest container service to use because of its documentation and wide spread support.

The simplest way to manage our codebase among our team members. Git and Github are also the most familiar version control tools among our team members.

Mailgun is a service that will allow us to send emails with offers directly from our service. We chose this over trying to set up our own SMTP server because it is much faster and easier to use. Speed is important for us because as a startup we want to get to MVP as fast as possible. Additionally, Mailgun gives us 20k free emails, which will be enough for creating our initial MVP.