# Self hosted

### Overview

Deploy CXFabric directly into **your own cloud environment** for maximum control over infrastructure, security, and compliance. This option is ideal for businesses with strict regulatory requirements or unique deployment needs.

Customer-provided Cloud platform requirements

### Network <a href="#network" id="network"></a>

VPC

NAT Gateway

Application Load balancer (1 minimum)

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### Container Orchestration <a href="#container-orchestration" id="container-orchestration"></a>

CXFabric applications are pre-packaged as Docker images and must run as containers.

[Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) (EKS, AKS, etc.)

* Minimum cluster size
  * Worker nodes: 2
  * VM Size: 4 CPU, 16 RAM, 30GB Disk storage.
* Preferred cluster size
  * Work nodes: 3

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### File storage <a href="#file-storage" id="file-storage"></a>

* AWS S3 buckets&#x20;
* Azure Blob storage&#x20;

or equivalent

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### Database <a href="#database" id="database"></a>

[Cassandra](https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html) DB (or AWS Keyspaces)

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### In-memory caching <a href="#in-memory-caching" id="in-memory-caching"></a>

Redis Cache

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* [AWS Valkey](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/)&#x20;
* [Redis](https://redis.io/) - The Real-time Data Platform

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### Logging/Monitoring/Alerting <a href="#logging-monitoring-alerting" id="logging-monitoring-alerting"></a>

[Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) (current resource)

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* [CloudWatch](https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/cloudwatch/)&#x20;
* [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/)&#x20;
* ELK ([Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/)/[Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/logstash)/[Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/kibana)).

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### Additional Resources <a href="#additional-resources" id="additional-resources"></a>

[Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/):&#x20;

* Public DNS
* DDoS/WAF protection&#x20;
* static file caching

[Auth0](https://auth0.com/):&#x20;

* User authentication


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