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title: "Deploying Document Engine to Amazon Web Services"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/deployment/aws/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/deployment/aws.md"
last_updated: "2026-05-14T21:57:26.836Z"
description: "Our recommended deployment approach for Amazon Web Services is using Helm on EKS, an Amazon-managed Kubernetes service. Alternatively."
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# Deploying to Amazon Web Services

Our recommended deployment approach for Amazon Web Services is using [Helm](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/deployment/helm.md) on [EKS](https://aws.amazon.com/eks/), an Amazon-managed [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) service. Alternatively, any self-managed Kubernetes flavor may be used. Refer to our [Kubernetes deployment](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/deployment/kubernetes.md) guide for more information.

We also have an [example](https://github.com/PSPDFKit/document-engine-reference-architecture/tree/master/examples/de-aws-eks) that demonstrates how to set up AWS EKS and deploy Document Engine to it. For specific guidance on configuring network access to your Document Engine services within Kubernetes on AWS, particularly when using AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB), refer to the [AWS ALB integration section in our Kubernetes Ingress](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/deployment/ingress.md#aws-alb-integration) guide.

## Legacy services

There are many older ways of deployment, including, but not limited to:

- [Elastic Container Service](https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/)

- Using virtual machines in [EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/)

Document Engine can successfully operate on ECS or EC2 with no limitations, but we currently don’t provide documentation for alternative services.
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## Related pages

- [Choose a Docker registry](/guides/document-engine/deployment/docker-registry.md)
- [Deploying on Kubernetes with Helm](/guides/document-engine/deployment/helm.md)
- [Deploying to Google Cloud Platform](/guides/document-engine/deployment/google-cloud-platform.md)
- [Horizontal scaling](/guides/document-engine/deployment/horizontal-scaling.md)
- [Backup and recovery](/guides/document-engine/deployment/backup-and-recovery.md)
- [Document Engine deployment overview](/guides/document-engine/deployment.md)
- [Deploying on Kubernetes](/guides/document-engine/deployment/kubernetes.md)
- [Product activation](/guides/document-engine/deployment/product-activation.md)
- [Deploying to Microsoft Azure](/guides/document-engine/deployment/microsoft-azure-aks.md)
- [Application-specific timeouts](/guides/document-engine/deployment/ingress.md)