--- title: How to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Deployments description: Discover the essentials of optimizing Serverless Framework applications for a global audience with multi-region deployments with StratusGrid’s enhancements. image: https://stratusgrid.com/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%201.webp --- # An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments Discover the essentials of optimizing Serverless Framework applications for a global audience with multi-region deployments with StratusGrid’s enhancements. [ Clint Adams ](https://stratusgrid.com/blog/author/clint-adams) Dec 14, 2021 #### Other blogs you may be interested in: [ Guard Duty Notifications Terraform Module ](https://stratusgrid.com/blog/guard-duty-notifications-terraform-module) [ Config Rules Module on Terraform ](https://stratusgrid.com/blog/aws-config-rules-terraform-module) [ Lambda Event Handler Service Discovery Sync Module on Terraform ](https://stratusgrid.com/blog/aws-lambda-event-handler-service-discovery-sync-terraform-module) ### Share this article [mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://stratusgrid.com/blog/multi-region-serverless-framework-deployments&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://stratusgrid.com/blog/multi-region-serverless-framework-deployments&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://stratusgrid.com/blog/multi-region-serverless-framework-deployments&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://stratusgrid.com/blog/multi-region-serverless-framework-deployments&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email) ### Subscribe ### Subscribe ![An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments](https://stratusgrid.com/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%201.webp) How to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Deployments 3:57 ## The Need for Multi-Region Deployments Until recently, deploying your Serverless Framework application in multiple regions was a somewhat difficult process involving a lot of custom CloudFormation. However, StratusGrid recently submitted changes to serverless-domain-manager that make it much simpler. The following architecture can be created with simple configuration changes: ![An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments 2](https://stratusgrid.com/hs-fs/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%202.webp?width=603&height=576&name=An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%202.webp)   ## Why Are Multi-region Deployments Important? Serverless Framework deployments are generally created in a single region in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This may work if you are only targeting a single part of the world, but if your application is intended for a global audience, your response time can be unacceptably long for users who are far away from your deployment region. A multi-region deployment with latency-based routing can reduce response times from multiple seconds to double-digit milliseconds! Multi-region deployments are also great from a disaster recovery and redundancy perspective. Automated health checks and a failover policy can be configured to achieve an active-active setup that can fail over between regions in the event of any issue.  This is particularly useful for situations such as the [** us-east-1 outage on December 7, 2021 ** ](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/07/amazon-web-services-outage-causes-issues-at-disney-netflix-coinbase.html) , where services were unavailable for nearly 8 hours in us-east-1, while other regions remained unaffected. ## Lambdas in Multi-Region Deployments Lambdas are well suited for multi-region deployments because they can easily scale and adapt to varying traffic patterns without incurring unnecessary costs. Operating within the pay-as-you-go model makes them much more economically appealing than other computing options - they can result in wasted and idle resources. ### Implementing Multi-Region Deployments With serverless-domain-manager At StratusGrid, we use the popular (and excellent) plug-in [** serverless-domain-manager **](https://github.com/amplify-education/serverless-domain-manager)to create the custom domain and Route 53 records. We recently submitted[** a change ** ](https://github.com/amplify-education/serverless-domain-manager/pull/439) to the repository that makes it possible to perform multi-region deployments with minimal configuration changes. To get started, add the serverless-domain-manager configuration to your `serverless.yaml` file as usual. The only difference is that you now add a `route53Params` structure with a `routingPolicy: latency` property. ![An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments 3](https://stratusgrid.com/hs-fs/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%203.webp?width=261&height=261&name=An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%203.webp) Then update your deployment process to deploy to multiple regions: ![An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments 4](https://stratusgrid.com/hs-fs/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%204.webp?width=363&height=73&name=An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%204.webp) Example Check out [** this github repository ** ](https://github.com/clintadams-sg/serverless-multi-region-demo) for an example of a multi-region project. ### Results We can demonstrate latency reductions by creating a simple lambda from the demo [** repository ** ](https://github.com/clintadams-sg/serverless-multi-region-demo) and deploying it to a single region. In this case, I deployed it to ap-southeast-1, which is far away from my machine located in the eastern United States. Making 10 requests I get the following total response times in seconds: ![An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments 5](https://stratusgrid.com/hs-fs/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%205.webp?width=639&height=334&name=An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%205.webp) Deploying the same project again in us-east-1, I get these response times with the exact same domain: ![An Easier Way to Do Multi-Region AWS Serverless Framework Deployments 6](https://stratusgrid.com/hs-fs/hubfs/An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%206.webp?width=639&height=357&name=An%20Easier%20Way%20to%20Do%20Multi-Region%20AWS%20Serverless%20Framework%20Deployments%206.webp) Deploying your Serverless Framework applications in multiple regions is a cost-effective and easy way to improve your users’ experience while increasing your application’s resiliency. We encourage you to consider this pattern for all of your Serverless deployments. ## StratusGrid Can Help With Multi-region Deployments Embrace the future of application deployment with StratusGrid's expertise in multi-region serverless frameworks. Ensure your application delivers optimal performance worldwide, reducing latency and enhancing user experience, while bolstering disaster recovery and redundancy. Our enhancements to serverless-domain-manager simplify the deployment process, allowing you to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure. [Contact us today](https://stratusgrid.com/book-a-consultation?hsLang=en) to elevate your serverless applications to a global scale with our proven multi-region deployment strategies. ## BONUS: Find Out if Your Organization is Ready for The Cloud ⤵️ [![FinOps](https://stratusgrid.com/hs-fs/hubfs/FinOps.webp?width=1280&height=720&name=FinOps.webp)](https://stratusgrid.com/cloud-maturity-assessment-quiz) ## Similar posts Modernization ### [Guard Duty Notifications Terraform Module](https://stratusgrid.com/blog/guard-duty-notifications-terraform-module) Stay ahead of security threats with StratusGrid's Guard Duty Notifications Terraform Module. Instant alerts for enhanced AWS security monitoring and... StratusGrid Feb 5, 2024 Modernization ### [Config Rules Module on Terraform](https://stratusgrid.com/blog/aws-config-rules-terraform-module) Streamline AWS compliance with StratusGrid's Config Rules Terraform module, offering security policy enforcement for your AWS accounts. 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