You are only responsible for managing the containerized application.

All the components in this architecture use serverless infrastructure: compute, storage, network, data transfer, orchestration, perimeter security, logging, and monitoring. This follows best practices as suggested in AWS Well-Architected Framework. This blog post discusses a scalable, secure, and serverless architecture pattern on AWS to host RStudio Server and Shiny App. You can scale to the need of users accessing the dashboard visualizations. If you run RStudio on our proposed architecture, you can focus on building applications instead of managing the infrastructure. Migrating R workloads into a serverless model in AWS, customers can benefit from managed infrastructure, scalability, and security.

Although it is possible to use virtual server infrastructure in the cloud to run R workloads, containerization offers significant operational benefits. Data scientists use RStudio server as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to develop, publish, and share interactive web dashboards built on Shiny Server.

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