nopCommerce - AWS Migration

Scope

We are moving our existing websites to AWS EC2. From a high level perspective, our plan as follow.

• Move the websites to EC2
• Move the database to RDS
• Content Images upload via CMS will go to s3
• Product Images on the websites are moved to s3
• Move the console apps to a t2.micro instance

We are using nopCommerce 3.3.

Implementation

Websites and Console Apps

Moving sites and apps to cloud instances are pretty straight forward. There are no code changes required in nopCommerce.

Database

We used the SQL Database Migration Wizard tool, pretty straight forward.

S3

Migration to S3 required some code changes, but we are not getting much resistance because of the advantage of using OO and polymorphism.

Previously we already wrote a custom class that inherit from the PictureService.

public class TAPictureService : PictureService, ITAPictureService, IPictureService

Now, I can inherit my custom class by my new AWS class.

public class AwsPictureService : TAPictureService, ITAPictureService, IPictureService

We will then override the image read / write method to connect to AWS. This was mentioned previously in my other post Amazon SDK S3 with .Net

In our DependencyRegister, we now register our new AWS Service.

builder.RegisterType<AwsPictureService>().As<IPictureService>();

Now my system is able to support either local or S3 images by changing the register type via DI.