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== gpt-5-2-thinking == === User: explain in many details for beginner of aws . === explain in many details for beginner of aws . 1) create docker on ec2 2) then use docker on aws ecs ? use as example simple ML chatbot coded in python langchain and using streamlit as ui . === Assistant: Below is a beginner-friendly, end-to-end path that matches what you asked: === Below is a beginner-friendly, end-to-end path that matches what you asked: # Create and run a Docker container on an EC2 instance (to prove your app works in Docker) # Reuse the same Docker image on AWS ECS (production-ish deployment), using a simple Python LangChain chatbot + Streamlit UI example. I will assume you are using AWS Console + AWS CLI from your laptop, and an Ubuntu EC2 instance. ==== - Your app: Streamlit web UI that calls a LangChain chatbot function ==== * Docker image: contains the app and all Python dependencies * Step A (EC2 Docker): build and run the container on one EC2 VM * Step B (ECS): push image to ECR (Elastic Container Registry) and deploy on ECS (Fargate is simplest) ==== ### ==== <syntaxhighlight>ml-chatbot/ app.py requirements.txt Dockerfile </syntaxhighlight> ===== This uses LangChain but keeps logic very simple. For a real chatbot you would add memory, retrieval, tools, etc. ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="python">import os import streamlit as st from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage, SystemMessage st.set_page_config(page_title="ML Chatbot", layout="centered") st.title("Simple ML Chatbot (LangChain + Streamlit)") === Read API key from environment variable === OPENAI_API_KEY = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "") if not OPENAI_API_KEY: st.warning("OPENAI_API_KEY is not set. The chatbot will not work until you set it.") else: llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o-mini", temperature=0.2) if "history" not in st.session_state: st.session_state.history = [] prompt = st.chat_input("Ask something...") if prompt: st.session_state.history.append(("user", prompt)) if not OPENAI_API_KEY: reply = "OPENAI_API_KEY missing. Set it as an environment variable and restart." else: messages = [SystemMessage(content="You are a helpful assistant.")] for role, text in st.session_state.history: if role == "user": messages.append(HumanMessage(content=text)) else: # assistant messages can be added too, kept simple here pass resp = llm.invoke(messages) reply = resp.content st.session_state.history.append(("assistant", reply)) for role, text in st.session_state.history: with st.chat_message(role): st.write(text) </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="txt">streamlit==1.39.0 ===== langchain==0.2.16 langchain-openai==0.1.22 </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="dockerfile">FROM python:3.11-slim ===== WORKDIR /app === System packages (optional but often useful) === RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ curl \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt COPY app.py . === Streamlit runs on 8501 by default === EXPOSE 8501 === Streamlit in container must listen on 0.0.0.0 === CMD ["streamlit", "run", "app.py", "--server.address=0.0.0.0", "--server.port=8501"] </syntaxhighlight> ==== ### ==== In AWS Console: * EC2 → Launch instance * Ubuntu 22.04 * Instance type: t3.small is fine for demo * Create/select a key pair (PEM) * Security group inbound rules: - SSH 22 from your IP (recommended) - Custom TCP 8501 from your IP (for Streamlit UI) : ===== From your laptop: ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">ssh -i /path/to/key.pem ubuntu@EC2_PUBLIC_IP </syntaxhighlight> ===== On EC2: ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y docker.io sudo systemctl enable docker sudo systemctl start docker sudo usermod -aG docker ubuntu </syntaxhighlight> Log out and log back in so group membership applies: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">exit ssh -i /path/to/key.pem ubuntu@EC2_PUBLIC_IP </syntaxhighlight> Check: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker --version docker ps </syntaxhighlight> ===== From your laptop, in the folder that contains ml-chatbot/: ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">scp -i /path/to/key.pem -r ml-chatbot ubuntu@EC2_PUBLIC_IP:~ </syntaxhighlight> On EC2: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cd ~/ml-chatbot ls </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker build -t ml-chatbot:latest . ===== </syntaxhighlight> ===== You must pass your API key as an environment variable: ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker run -d \ --name ml-chatbot \ -p 8501:8501 \ -e OPENAI_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY_HERE" \ ml-chatbot:latest </syntaxhighlight> Check logs: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker logs -f ml-chatbot </syntaxhighlight> Now open in browser: <syntaxhighlight>http://EC2_PUBLIC_IP:8501 </syntaxhighlight> At this point, you have proven: * your code works, * Docker build works, * the container exposes the correct port, * the app is reachable. That is the entire value of the “EC2 Docker” step: it removes complexity before ECS. ==== ECS cannot pull images from your EC2 disk. ECS pulls images from a registry—on AWS the standard is ECR. ==== So the real flow is: Build image → Tag → Push to ECR → ECS Task Definition uses ECR image → ECS Service runs tasks ===== AWS Console: ===== * ECR → Repositories → Create repository * Name: ml-chatbot You will get a repository URI like: <syntaxhighlight>123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ml-chatbot </syntaxhighlight> ===== If you do it on EC2: ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo apt-get install -y awscli aws --version </syntaxhighlight> You need credentials. The cleanest approach: * Attach an IAM role to the EC2 instance with permissions for ECR push (for learning/demo) OR * Configure AWS CLI with access keys (aws configure) (less ideal long-term) For beginner demo, attaching an EC2 IAM role is simplest: * EC2 → Instance → Security → IAM role → Attach role * Role permissions: ECR push/pull (AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess) is the blunt option for learning. ===== On the machine that will push (EC2 or laptop): ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 \ | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker tag ml-chatbot:latest 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ml-chatbot:latest ===== </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker push 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ml-chatbot:latest ===== </syntaxhighlight> Now the image is in ECR and ECS can pull it. ==== There are two ECS “compute” modes: ==== * ECS on EC2: you manage worker EC2 instances inside your cluster * ECS on Fargate: AWS runs the worker machines for you (simpler) For a beginner: use Fargate. ===== AWS Console: ===== * ECS → Clusters → Create cluster * “Networking only (Fargate)” or equivalent * Name: ml-chatbot-cluster ===== ECS → Task Definitions → Create ===== * Launch type: Fargate * CPU/Memory: start small (e.g., 0.25 vCPU / 0.5GB or 1GB) * Container: - Image URI: 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ml-chatbot:latest - Container port: 8501 - Environment variables: - OPENAI_API_KEY = your key (for demo) Important security note: For real deployments, you should NOT store secrets in plain env vars in the task definition. Use AWS Secrets Manager. For learning, env var is acceptable. ===== In the cluster: ===== * Create Service * Launch type: Fargate * Task definition: select your task def * Desired tasks: 1 * Networking: - VPC: default is fine for demo - Subnets: 2+ subnets recommended - Security group inbound: - allow port 8501 from your IP (or from ALB if you attach one) ===== If you expose Fargate tasks directly, you end up with awkward networking and changing IPs. The standard is: ===== ALB (public) → Target Group → ECS Service tasks In the service creation wizard, enable Load Balancer: * Create ALB * Listener: HTTP 80 (or HTTPS 443 later) * Target group: port 8501 * Health check path: / (Streamlit returns 200 on /) Then you access: <syntaxhighlight>http://ALB_DNS_NAME </syntaxhighlight> ===== ECS → Tasks → select running task → Logs ===== If you configured CloudWatch logs in the task definition, you will see Streamlit output there. ==== ### ==== Because it isolates problems: * If the container doesn’t start on EC2, it won’t start on ECS either. * If port mapping is wrong on EC2, ECS health checks will fail. * If dependencies are missing, Docker build will fail early. EC2 is a controlled environment for debugging. ===== ECS gives you: ===== * “keep my service running” (service scheduler) * easy scaling (desired count 1 → 5) * load balancer integration * centralized logs * repeatable deployment ==== 1. Streamlit binds to localhost ==== * Must run with --server.address=0.0.0.0 inside container (done above) # Security group missing port * EC2 needs inbound 8501 (or ALB needs inbound 80/443) # ECS task cannot pull image * Fix: ensure image is in ECR and the task execution role has ECR pull permissions # Hardcoding secrets * For real use: Secrets Manager → injected into task at runtime # No health checks / failing health checks * Use ALB health check path / ==== Once you confirm the above works: ==== * Move OPENAI_API_KEY into Secrets Manager * Attach IAM roles properly (least privilege) * Add HTTPS via ACM certificate on the ALB * Add WAF if this is internet-facing * Add logging/monitoring (CloudWatch alarms) If you tell me whether you want ECS Fargate or ECS on EC2 as the final target, I can give you a fully copy-paste set of AWS CLI commands (or Terraform-style steps) for that exact path. === User: wrong . === wrong . Install AWS CLI on EC2 (or do this from your laptop) . do not use laptop at all . just upload python code from my local to ec2 using ec2 shell . than all should be done on aws === Assistant: Understood. === Understood. Below is a laptop-free workflow: you use AWS Console to create EC2, then you do everything inside the EC2 shell (browser-based EC2 terminal is acceptable; nothing requires AWS CLI on your laptop). Your only “local” action is uploading your code into EC2 using a web-based method. I will give you two clean upload options that work entirely “on AWS” once the file is in EC2: * Option A (recommended): EC2 Instance Connect + upload via browser (no laptop CLI) * Option B: Paste files into <code>nano</code> (zero upload, but tedious) Then: build Docker on EC2 → run → create ECR + push → create ECS and deploy. All from EC2 shell + AWS Console. === ## === Console → EC2 → Launch instance: * AMI: Ubuntu 22.04 * Instance type: t3.small (demo) * Security group inbound: - SSH 22: from your IP (or you can use EC2 Instance Connect) - TCP 8501: from your IP (for Streamlit) * IAM Role: attach a role with: - AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess (for ECR push) - AmazonECSFullAccess (for ECS create/update) - (Optional) CloudWatchLogsFullAccess (for logs) : ==== EC2 → select instance → Connect → choose EC2 Instance Connect (or Session Manager if configured) → open terminal. ==== From here onward: all commands are run in that EC2 terminal. === ## === In the EC2 “Connect” page (Instance Connect), AWS provides an Upload file capability in many accounts/regions. If you see it: # Zip your project locally: ml-chatbot.zip # In the EC2 web terminal UI: Upload file → select the zip # On EC2: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y unzip mkdir -p ~/ml-chatbot unzip ~/ml-chatbot.zip -d ~/ml-chatbot cd ~/ml-chatbot ls </syntaxhighlight> If you do not see upload in the UI, use Option B or Option C below. ==== In EC2 shell: ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">mkdir -p ~/ml-chatbot cd ~/ml-chatbot nano app.py </syntaxhighlight> Paste the code (I provide below), save. Repeat for requirements.txt and Dockerfile. ==== If you can place the code in a GitHub repo (public or private) once, then on EC2: ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y git git clone https://github.com/YOURUSER/YOURREPO.git ~/ml-chatbot cd ~/ml-chatbot </syntaxhighlight> This avoids any file upload mechanisms. (But it does require you to have a repo.) === Use these exact files in ~/ml-chatbot/. === ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="python">import os ==== import streamlit as st from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage, SystemMessage, AIMessage st.set_page_config(page_title="ML Chatbot", layout="centered") st.title("Simple ML Chatbot (LangChain + Streamlit)") api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "") if not api_key: st.warning("OPENAI_API_KEY is not set. Set it as an environment variable for the container.") if "history" not in st.session_state: st.session_state.history = [SystemMessage(content="You are a helpful assistant.")] prompt = st.chat_input("Ask something...") if prompt: st.session_state.history.append(HumanMessage(content=prompt)) if api_key: llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o-mini", temperature=0.2, api_key=api_key) resp = llm.invoke(st.session_state.history) st.session_state.history.append(AIMessage(content=resp.content)) else: st.session_state.history.append(AIMessage(content="Missing OPENAI_API_KEY. Set it and restart.")) for msg in st.session_state.history: if isinstance(msg, SystemMessage): continue role = "user" if isinstance(msg, HumanMessage) else "assistant" with st.chat_message(role): st.write(msg.content) </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="txt">streamlit==1.39.0 ==== langchain==0.2.16 langchain-openai==0.1.22 </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="dockerfile">FROM python:3.11-slim ==== WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ curl \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt COPY app.py . EXPOSE 8501 CMD ["streamlit", "run", "app.py", "--server.address=0.0.0.0", "--server.port=8501"] </syntaxhighlight> === ## === On EC2: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y docker.io sudo systemctl enable docker sudo systemctl start docker sudo usermod -aG docker ubuntu </syntaxhighlight> Important: in the web shell, group membership may not refresh automatically. Easiest is: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">newgrp docker </syntaxhighlight> Verify: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker --version docker ps </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cd ~/ml-chatbot ==== docker build -t ml-chatbot:latest . </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker rm -f ml-chatbot >/dev/null 2>&1 || true ==== docker run -d \ --name ml-chatbot \ -p 8501:8501 \ -e OPENAI_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY_HERE" \ ml-chatbot:latest </syntaxhighlight> Check logs: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker logs -f ml-chatbot </syntaxhighlight> Open in browser: <syntaxhighlight>http://EC2_PUBLIC_IP:8501 </syntaxhighlight> At this point, Docker-on-EC2 works. === This requires: === * EC2 has an IAM role allowing ECR actions * AWS CLI installed on EC2 (not laptop) ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo apt-get update ==== sudo apt-get install -y awscli aws --version </syntaxhighlight> Confirm the instance role works: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">aws sts get-caller-identity </syntaxhighlight> If this fails, your instance does not have a role with permissions. ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">export AWS_REGION="us-east-1" ==== </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">aws ecr create-repository --repository-name ml-chatbot --region "$AWS_REGION" >/dev/null || true ==== </syntaxhighlight> Get your account ID: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">ACCOUNT_ID=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text) echo $ACCOUNT_ID </syntaxhighlight> Set repo URI: <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">ECR_URI="$ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com/ml-chatbot" echo $ECR_URI </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">aws ecr get-login-password --region "$AWS_REGION" \ ==== | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com" </syntaxhighlight> ==== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">docker tag ml-chatbot:latest "$ECR_URI:latest" ==== docker push "$ECR_URI:latest" </syntaxhighlight> Now the image is stored in ECR. === You can create ECS using CLI too, but for a beginner the Console is more reliable and still “on AWS.” === ==== Console → ECS → Clusters → Create: ==== * Networking only / Fargate * Name: ml-chatbot-cluster ==== Console → ECS → Task Definitions → Create: ==== * Launch type: Fargate * CPU/Mem: small (0.25 vCPU, 0.5–1GB) * Container: - Image: ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ml-chatbot:latest - Port mapping: 8501 - Env var: OPENAI_API_KEY (for demo) - Logs: enable CloudWatch Logs ==== In cluster → Create service: ==== * Launch type: Fargate * Desired tasks: 1 * Networking: - Choose subnets - Security group: allow inbound 8501 from your IP (demo) OR from ALB (recommended) * Load balancer: recommended to add ALB - Listener 80 → target group → container port 8501 - Health check: path / Then you access: * If ALB enabled: http://ALB_DNS_NAME * If no ALB: you must use task public IP (more awkward) === - No laptop AWS CLI. === * You only place the code onto EC2 using the EC2 web shell workflow (upload/clone/paste). * Everything else (Docker build, ECR push, ECS deploy) is done inside AWS. === Say so, and I will provide a fully scripted approach (ECS cluster + task definition + service + ALB) using only AWS CLI commands executed on EC2. For a true beginner, I do not recommend starting there because ALB + ECS networking via CLI is verbose and error-prone, but it is absolutely doable. === === User: do it Add Secrets Manager instead of env vars === do it Add Secrets Manager instead of env vars Explain why Streamlit over API Gateway is tricky (important!) Convert Streamlit → FastAPI + Streamlit split (best practice) === Assistant: Below are the three items you requested, with best-practice AWS architecture and AWS Console mouse-click steps. === Below are the three items you requested, with best-practice AWS architecture and AWS Console (mouse-click) steps. ==== ### ==== Hardcoding OPENAI_API_KEY in the ECS task definition “Environment variables” is insecure and hard to rotate. Instead: store it in Secrets Manager and inject it at runtime as a container secret. ===== 1. AWS Console → Secrets Manager ===== # Click Store a new secret # Select Other type of secret # Under Key/value pairs: - Key: OPENAI_API_KEY - Value: (paste your key) # Click Next # Secret name: prod/ml-chatbot/openai # (Optional) Description: “OpenAI key for ML Chatbot” # Click Next # Configure automatic rotation: - For OpenAI keys, rotation is usually manual (unless you build your own rotation Lambda). - Leave rotation disabled for now. # Click Next # Review → Store You now have an ARN like: arn:aws:secretsmanager:REGION:ACCOUNT:secret:prod/ml-chatbot/openai-xxxx ===== Your ECS task needs permissions to fetch that secret at runtime. ===== # AWS Console → IAM # Click Roles # Find your ECS task execution role used by your task definition - Often named like: ecsTaskExecutionRole or something created with your task # Click the role # Add permissions → Attach policies # Attach (minimum required pattern): - If you want simplest learning approach: attach AWS managed policy <code>SecretsManagerReadWrite</code> (too broad for production, but easy) - Better (recommended) approach: attach a custom inline policy restricting to that one secret: Click: * Permissions tab → Add permissions → Create inline policy * Choose JSON and paste: <syntaxhighlight lang="json">{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "ReadSpecificSecret", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue" ], "Resource": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:REGION:ACCOUNT:secret:prod/ml-chatbot/openai-*" } ] } </syntaxhighlight> # Click Next # Policy name: ReadMlChatbotOpenAISecret # Click Create policy : ===== 1. AWS Console → ECS ===== # Go to Task definitions # Click your task definition: ml-chatbot-task # Click Create new revision # Scroll to Container definitions → select your container → Edit # Find section Secrets (NOT environment variables) # Click Add secret - Name: OPENAI_API_KEY - ValueFrom: select your secret: - prod/ml-chatbot/openai - If it asks for a specific JSON key, pick OPENAI_API_KEY # Remove the plaintext environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY if you previously set it. # Click Update # Scroll down → Create ===== 1. ECS → Clusters → ml-chatbot-cluster ===== # Services → select your service # Click Update # Under Task definition revision choose the latest revision # Click Update # Wait for new task to start and old one to stop. ===== 1. ECS → Cluster → Service → Tasks ===== # Click the running task # Go to Logs (CloudWatch) # Confirm no “missing OPENAI_API_KEY” warnings. # Test the UI / API. ==== Streamlit is not a simple “single-request → single-response” website. It behaves more like an interactive app with internal endpoints and persistent behaviors. ==== Common problems when you put Streamlit behind API Gateway (especially HTTP API) include: ===== Streamlit typically uses endpoints such as: ===== * /_stcore/... * Websocket-like / streaming updates (behavior depends on Streamlit version) API Gateway is excellent for stateless API calls, but Streamlit’s UI runtime is chatty and can involve long-lived or streaming-style responses. That can surface as: * UI loads partially, then stops updating * chat input submits but the page “spins” * random 502/504 in the browser console ===== Streamlit expects stable behavior for: ===== * Host / scheme (http/https) * forwarded headers * path routing * websocket upgrade (where applicable) If your API Gateway integration is “HTTP proxy to ALB,” you now have: * Browser → API Gateway → ALB → Streamlit Any mismatch in path rewriting or headers can cause subtle runtime failures. ===== Streamlit is UI traffic (HTML/JS/assets, frequent refresh/update calls). Sending that through API Gateway can be: ===== * unnecessarily expensive compared to ALB + CloudFront * higher latency * more prone to throttling issues ===== - Serve Streamlit UI through ALB (or better: CloudFront + ALB). ===== * Use API Gateway for your FastAPI backend only. ==== This is the professional pattern: ==== ===== - Streamlit = UI only ===== * FastAPI = backend API for LLM calls (LangChain lives here) * API Gateway fronts FastAPI * Streamlit calls the API endpoint via HTTPS <syntaxhighlight>Browser ├── Streamlit UI (ALB or CloudFront -> ALB -> ECS Streamlit service) └── FastAPI API (API Gateway -> ALB -> ECS FastAPI service) </syntaxhighlight> ===== - API Gateway is used exactly for what it’s good at: API auth, throttling, routing, WAF integration, usage plans (REST API), etc. ===== * Streamlit stays simple and reliable behind ALB/CloudFront. * You can scale UI and API independently. === ## === In ECR: # Create repository ml-chatbot-ui # Create repository ml-chatbot-api You will build/push both from your EC2 builder instance as before (using ECR “View push commands” in console and pasting into EC2 shell). ==== ### ==== * Container port: 8000 * Secrets: OPENAI_API_KEY from Secrets Manager * CloudWatch logs enabled ===== - Container port: 8501 ===== * No OpenAI key needed (UI shouldn’t hold secrets) * It only needs an environment variable like: - API_BASE_URL = https://<your-api-gateway>/prod ==== You can do either: ==== '' One ALB with two target groups + path routing - / → Streamlit target group (8501) - /api/'' → FastAPI target group (8000) * Or two ALBs (cleaner separation, more cost) Given you explicitly want API Gateway, the most common is: * ALB #1 for Streamlit (public) * ALB #2 for FastAPI (public or internal depending on design), but API Gateway will call it For simplicity and clarity: * Use one ALB with two target groups: - TG-UI (8501) - TG-API (8000) Then configure API Gateway integration to route to: '' http://ALB_DNS_NAME/api/... (ALB listener rule forwards /api/'' to FastAPI TG) ==== In API Gateway (HTTP API): ==== # Integration: HTTP → http://ALB_DNS_NAME # Routes: - ANY /api/{proxy+} → that integration # Stage: prod Now the API URL becomes: https://...execute-api.../prod/api/... ==== Your Streamlit code should call: ==== API_BASE_URL = https://...execute-api.../prod And when user chats: * Streamlit sends request to POST {API_BASE_URL}/api/chat * FastAPI returns response JSON * Streamlit renders it This keeps: * Secrets in backend only * API gateway where it belongs * UI stable === If you want, I will provide two complete folders (copy/paste-ready): === # FastAPI backend: * /api/chat endpoint * LangChain call inside * Uses OPENAI_API_KEY from injected Secrets Manager env var * Structured JSON request/response # Streamlit frontend: * Chat UI only * Calls API_BASE_URL/api/chat And matching Dockerfiles for both. If you confirm one detail, I will assume defaults otherwise: * Do you want the backend to be OpenAI only, or OpenAI + Anthropic fallback? === User: yes do it === yes do it === Assistant: Below is a complete, copy-paste-ready two-service split FastAPI backend + Streamlit frontend, plus the AWS Console-only… === Below is a complete, copy-paste-ready two-service split (FastAPI backend + Streamlit frontend), plus the AWS Console-only deployment steps (with Secrets Manager, ECS Fargate, ALB routing, and API Gateway in front of FastAPI). You will end up with: * Streamlit UI served from ALB (stable, correct for Streamlit) * FastAPI API served behind API Gateway → ALB → ECS * Secrets Manager holds OPENAI_API_KEY and is injected only into the FastAPI container (UI never sees secrets) === ## === Folder <syntaxhighlight>ml-chatbot-api/ main.py requirements.txt Dockerfile </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="python">import os ===== from pydantic import BaseModel from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langchain_core.messages import SystemMessage, HumanMessage APP_NAME = "ml-chatbot-api" class ChatRequest(BaseModel): message: str class ChatResponse(BaseModel): reply: str def get_openai_key() -> str: # ECS Secrets Manager injection will set OPENAI_API_KEY env var at runtime key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "").strip() if not key: raise RuntimeError("OPENAI_API_KEY is missing (Secrets Manager injection likely not configured).") return key app = FastAPI(title=APP_NAME) === CORS: allow Streamlit UI origin(s). For simplicity in early testing, allow all. === === In production, set allow_origins=["https://YOUR_UI_DOMAIN"]. === app.add_middleware( CORSMiddleware, allow_origins=["*"], allow_credentials=False, allow_methods=["*"], allow_headers=["*"], ) @app.get("/api/health") def health(): return {"status": "ok"} @app.post("/api/chat", response_model=ChatResponse) def chat(req: ChatRequest): msg = (req.message or "").strip() if not msg: raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="message is required") try: api_key = get_openai_key() llm = ChatOpenAI( model="gpt-4o-mini", temperature=0.2, api_key=api_key, ) messages = [ SystemMessage(content="You are a helpful assistant. Answer clearly and concisely."), HumanMessage(content=msg), ] resp = llm.invoke(messages) return ChatResponse(reply=resp.content) except HTTPException: raise except Exception as e: raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=f"Chat failed: {str(e)}") </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="txt">fastapi==0.115.6 ===== uvicorn[standard]==0.30.6 pydantic==2.9.2 langchain==0.2.16 langchain-openai==0.1.22 </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="dockerfile">FROM python:3.11-slim ===== WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt COPY main.py . EXPOSE 8000 CMD ["uvicorn", "main:app", "--host=0.0.0.0", "--port=8000"] </syntaxhighlight> ==== Folder ==== <syntaxhighlight>ml-chatbot-ui/ app.py requirements.txt Dockerfile </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="python">import os ===== import requests import streamlit as st st.set_page_config(page_title="ML Chatbot UI", layout="centered") st.title("ML Chatbot (Streamlit UI)") API_BASE_URL = os.getenv("API_BASE_URL", "").rstrip("/") if not API_BASE_URL: st.error("API_BASE_URL is not set. Set it to your API Gateway stage URL, e.g. https://XXXX.execute-api.REGION.amazonaws.com/prod") st.stop() CHAT_URL = f"{API_BASE_URL}/api/chat" HEALTH_URL = f"{API_BASE_URL}/api/health" === Basic health check === with st.expander("Backend status", expanded=False): try: r = requests.get(HEALTH_URL, timeout=5) st.write("Health:", r.status_code, r.text) except Exception as e: st.write("Health check failed:", str(e)) if "history" not in st.session_state: st.session_state.history = [] # list of (role, text) prompt = st.chat_input("Ask something...") if prompt: st.session_state.history.append(("user", prompt)) try: resp = requests.post(CHAT_URL, json={"message": prompt}, timeout=60) if resp.status_code != 200: reply = f"API error {resp.status_code}: {resp.text}" else: reply = resp.json().get("reply", "") if not reply: reply = "Empty reply from API." except Exception as e: reply = f"Request failed: {str(e)}" st.session_state.history.append(("assistant", reply)) for role, text in st.session_state.history: with st.chat_message(role): st.write(text) </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="txt">streamlit==1.39.0 ===== requests==2.32.3 </syntaxhighlight> ===== <syntaxhighlight lang="dockerfile">FROM python:3.11-slim ===== WORKDIR /app RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt COPY app.py . EXPOSE 8501 CMD ["streamlit", "run", "app.py", "--server.address=0.0.0.0", "--server.port=8501"] </syntaxhighlight> === You will use: === * Secrets Manager for OPENAI_API_KEY * ECR for two images * ECS Fargate for two services '' One ALB with path routing: - / → Streamlit UI target group (8501) - /api/'' → FastAPI target group (8000) '' API Gateway (HTTP API) in front of the ALB only for <code>/api/''</code> ==== 1. Console → Secrets Manager ==== # Store a new secret # Secret type: Other type of secret # Key/value: - Key: OPENAI_API_KEY - Value: (paste your OpenAI key) # Next # Secret name: prod/ml-chatbot/openai # Next → leave rotation off → Next # Store Copy the Secret ARN from the secret details page. ==== 1. Console → ECR ==== # Create repository - Name: ml-chatbot-api - Create # Create repository - Name: ml-chatbot-ui - Create ==== You already use EC2 Instance Connect browser terminal and upload zip. Do the same with two zips: ==== * ml-chatbot-api.zip * ml-chatbot-ui.zip On EC2 browser shell: * Unzip each into its folder * Build docker image * Push using ECR “View push commands” (Console) ===== 1. Console → ECR → repo ml-chatbot-api ===== # Click View push commands # In EC2 shell: - docker build -t ml-chatbot-api . inside ~/ml-chatbot-api - Copy/paste the ECR login command from “View push commands” - Copy/paste tag command - Copy/paste push command ===== 1. Console → ECR → repo ml-chatbot-ui ===== # View push commands # In EC2 shell inside ~/ml-chatbot-ui: - docker build -t ml-chatbot-ui . - Paste login/tag/push commands Result: ECR has two images. ==== 1. Console → ECS ==== # Clusters → Create cluster # Choose Networking only (Fargate) # Name: ml-chatbot-cluster # Create ==== 1. ECS → Task definitions → Create new task definition ==== # Choose Fargate # Task definition name: ml-chatbot-api-task # Task size: - CPU: 0.5 vCPU - Memory: 1 GB # Execution role: - Choose existing ecsTaskExecutionRole if present, or create new ===== - Name: ml-chatbot-api ===== * Image: pick from ECR: ml-chatbot-api:latest * Port mapping: - Container port: 8000 ===== - Find Secrets section ===== * Add secret - Name: OPENAI_API_KEY - ValueFrom: - Select secret prod/ml-chatbot/openai - Select JSON key OPENAI_API_KEY (if prompted) ===== - Enable CloudWatch Logs ===== * Log group: /ecs/ml-chatbot-api Click Create ==== 1. ECS → Task definitions → Create new task definition ==== # Fargate # Name: ml-chatbot-ui-task # CPU/mem: 0.25–0.5 vCPU, 0.5–1 GB ===== - Name: ml-chatbot-ui ===== * Image: ml-chatbot-ui:latest * Port mapping: 8501 * Environment variable: - Name: API_BASE_URL - Value: (leave blank for now; you will set it after API Gateway exists) Logging: * Log group /ecs/ml-chatbot-ui Create ==== ### ==== # Console → EC2 → Target Groups # Create target group # Target type: IP addresses # Name: tg-ml-chatbot-ui # Protocol: HTTP # Port: 8501 # Health check path: / # Create ===== 1. EC2 → Target Groups → Create target group ===== # Target type: IP addresses # Name: tg-ml-chatbot-api # Protocol: HTTP # Port: 8000 # Health check path: /api/health # Create ===== 1. EC2 → Load Balancers → Create load balancer ===== # Application Load Balancer # Name: alb-ml-chatbot # Scheme: Internet-facing # IP type: IPv4 # VPC: default # Subnets: select at least 2 Security group: * Create or select SG allowing: - Inbound HTTP 80 from 0.0.0.0/0 (for testing) - Later you can lock down Listeners: * HTTP :80 Create load balancer ===== 1. EC2 → Load Balancers → select alb-ml-chatbot ===== # Listeners tab → click HTTP:80 # View/edit rules # Create rules: - Rule 1 (top priority): - IF Path is /api/* - THEN Forward to tg-ml-chatbot-api - Default rule: - Forward to tg-ml-chatbot-ui Save ==== ### ==== # ECS → Clusters → ml-chatbot-cluster # Create (Service) # Launch type: Fargate # Task definition: ml-chatbot-api-task # Desired tasks: 1 Networking: * Choose VPC + subnets * Security group for tasks: - inbound allow from ALB SG to port 8000 * Public IP: ENABLED (simplifies; later you can disable with private subnets) Load balancing: * Enable load balancing * Type: ALB * Load balancer: alb-ml-chatbot * Listener: 80 * Target group: tg-ml-chatbot-api * Container to load balance: ml-chatbot-api:8000 Create service ===== Repeat: ===== * Task definition: ml-chatbot-ui-task * Task SG inbound allow from ALB SG to port 8501 * Attach to target group tg-ml-chatbot-ui with container port 8501 Create service ==== This is the correct “API Gateway usage”: it fronts FastAPI, not Streamlit UI. ==== # Console → API Gateway # Create API # Choose HTTP API → Build Integration: * Type: HTTP * Endpoint URL: http://<ALB-DNS-NAME> * Method: ANY Routes: * Add route: ANY /api/{proxy+} * Integration: the HTTP integration to ALB Stage: * Name: prod * Auto-deploy: enabled Create Now you have: https://xxxx.execute-api.<region>.amazonaws.com/prod/api/... ==== Now set API_BASE_URL in the UI task definition to the API Gateway stage URL. ==== # ECS → Task definitions → ml-chatbot-ui-task # Create new revision # Container ml-chatbot-ui → Edit # Environment variables: - API_BASE_URL = https://xxxx.execute-api.<region>.amazonaws.com/prod # Update → Create revision Deploy it: # ECS → Cluster → Services → select UI service # Update # Choose latest task revision # Update === ## === Open: http://<ALB-DNS-NAME>/ * UI loads reliably (no API Gateway issues) ==== Open: ==== https://xxxx.execute-api.<region>.amazonaws.com/prod/api/health Should return: {"status":"ok"} Try chat: * Use the UI and send a message * Or test with any REST client (optional) === 1. Secrets are only in backend: UI never contains OpenAI key. === # API Gateway is used correctly: for API calls (auth/throttle/logging later), not for Streamlit’s UI mechanics. # ALB handles UI reliably: Streamlit’s internal endpoints and behavior remain stable. # Independent scaling: scale UI tasks separately from API tasks. If you want the next hardening steps (still Console-only), I can add: * HTTPS (ACM certificate) on ALB * WAF attachment * Restrict CORS to only your UI domain * Secrets Manager rotation approach (via Lambda) or a practical manual rotation workflow === User: 1 You split Streamlit and FastAPI not because AWS is complicated, but because security, cost, and reliability fundament… === 1) You split Streamlit and FastAPI not because AWS is complicated, but because security, cost, and reliability fundamentally break when UI and backend share secrets, scaling, and traffic patterns . then is needed fastapi python code to be stateful to have same user new conversation remember this user past conversations and for rag to be able to use embedding from used files from past ? 2) can not understand . i need my ui will be used from any users ? 3) can not understand Correct mapping API Gateway → FastAPI ALB → Streamlit Each service gets traffic it is designed to handle. Analogy: API Gateway is a call center Streamlit UI is a website You do not route website traffic through a call center. do you mean external to aws user will use only ALB. then why needed API Gateway → FastAPI for my backend python code based on fastapi? 4) better explain : D. Independent scaling (this is where money and reliability matter) === Assistant: === ==== No—it should be the opposite: keep FastAPI stateless at the container level, and store state in external services. ==== ===== Your FastAPI container should be disposable. If ECS kills it and restarts it, you must not lose: ===== * conversation history * user identity / session context * RAG indexes / embeddings * document metadata So you store those outside the container: ===== A) Conversation memory ===== * Store per-user conversation turns in: - DynamoDB (simple and scalable), or - RDS Postgres (if you already run it), or - ElastiCache Redis (fast session cache, optional) Then each request includes a user_id (or session_id) and the API loads the last N turns. B) RAG documents / embeddings * Store files in S3 * Store vectors in a vector store: - Postgres + pgvector on RDS (common, robust) - OpenSearch vector engine (more ops) - A managed vector DB if you use one C) “Past used files from past” If you mean “the user uploaded files earlier, and later questions should use those same files,” that is exactly what S3 + metadata DB + vector store solves: * Uploaded file → S3 object * Extract text → chunk → embed → store vectors with user_id + file_id * Later queries: retrieve top-k by user_id scope ===== No. Avoid it. Use external state instead. ===== Then any FastAPI task can answer any request, which enables scaling and reliability. ==== This is a very common misunderstanding. ==== CORS is not about which users can use your UI. CORS is about which websites (origins) are allowed to call your API from a browser. ===== - Your UI has one domain (or a few): e.g. https://app.yourdomain.com ===== * You want any user on the internet to visit that domain and use the UI * But you do not want random other websites (origins) to call your API directly from their JavaScript So you restrict CORS to your UI’s domain, not to specific people. ====== - Allowed origin: https://app.yourdomain.com ====== * Users: unlimited (the public) * Blocked: https://evilsite.com calling your API from a browser If you truly have multiple UI domains (staging, prod), you add them: * https://app.yourdomain.com * https://staging.yourdomain.com ===== CORS does not replace authentication. ===== If your API is paid / sensitive, you still need auth (JWT/Cognito/API key/usage plans). CORS just prevents browser-based cross-site abuse. ==== You can run: ==== * Browser → ALB → Streamlit * Streamlit → ALB → FastAPI and skip API Gateway entirely. So the real question is: what does API Gateway give you that ALB alone does not? ===== API Gateway is a specialized “API front door” that provides API-focused capabilities that are harder (or impossible) to do cleanly with ALB alone: ===== # Authentication integrations * Native integrations with Cognito JWT authorizers, IAM auth, custom authorizers * Easier to standardize “who can call this API” # Throttling and quotas * Rate limit per client (and optionally usage plans, especially with REST API) * Prevents runaway costs (very relevant with LLM calls) # Request/response controls and API lifecycle * Versioning via stages (/prod, /v1) * Central API configuration independent of ALB listener rules # WAF attachment for API-specific protection * You can attach WAF to ALB too, but many teams prefer WAF policies at the API edge # Observability posture for APIs * API-oriented metrics and logs, easier “API product” management ===== - If this is a public, real product (unknown users, cost risk, need auth/limits): keep API Gateway → FastAPI. ===== * If this is internal or a demo (low risk): ALB-only is acceptable. ===== - Streamlit is a “website-like” workload: lots of small UI requests, internal paths, interactive behavior ===== * FastAPI is a “call center” workload: discrete API requests where you want policy controls (auth, throttling, quotas) Users should go to: * UI: ALB (or CloudFront) API calls should go to: * API Gateway (for control) → ALB → FastAPI ==== This matters because LLM-backed APIs are expensive compared to UI. ==== ===== Assume: ===== * Each container has enough CPU/memory to handle LLM calls well * You deploy 1 service with 1 container type Traffic: * 200 people open the UI (mostly idle browsing) * 20 people actually send chat messages Problem: * UI traffic forces you to scale containers to keep the UI snappy * But those same containers also include the backend runtime and secret access * You end up paying for LLM-capable containers even when people are just loading the UI Example: * UI load requires 6 tasks to keep responsiveness * You now have 6 “full stack” tasks running even though only 1–2 tasks worth of API compute is needed ===== Now: ===== * UI service: lightweight, can run 2–3 small tasks * API service: scales only when chat calls increase Example: * UI: 2 tasks (small CPU/mem) * API: 1 task normally, scales to 5 only if request rate spikes Benefits: # Lower cost * API tasks are larger (CPU/mem), scale only when needed # Higher reliability * UI spikes do not crash API * API spikes do not slow UI # Better security * Only API tasks can read secrets # Cleaner operations * You debug UI and API independently ===== - UI scaling metric: ALB request count / target response time ===== * API scaling metric: request rate to /api/chat, CPU, latency ==== ### ==== Yes—but do it with external state: * Conversation history in DynamoDB/RDS * RAG vectors in pgvector/OpenSearch * User/session IDs passed on each request ===== Yes. Restrict to your UI domain. That still supports unlimited users. ===== ===== If you want: ===== * throttling + quotas * auth (Cognito/JWT) * a clean API front door then yes. If you only want it to “route traffic,” then ALB alone is enough. If you tell me one thing—is your chatbot public (unknown users) or private (only you / internal)?—I will recommend the exact minimal security setup (Cognito vs simple token vs no auth) without adding unnecessary AWS complexity. === User: i see do i need CORS , since i separated streamlit ui and backend fastapi ? === i see do i need CORS , since i separated streamlit ui and backend fastapi ? === Assistant: Yes—in most real deployments you still need CORS after splitting Streamlit UI and FastAPI API, but only if the browser … === Yes—in most real deployments you still need CORS after splitting Streamlit (UI) and FastAPI (API), but only if the browser is calling the API from a different origin. ==== When you DO need CORS ==== You need CORS if Streamlit (running in the user’s browser) makes HTTP requests to your FastAPI endpoint on a different host. In your split design, that is typically the case: * UI origin: http://<ALB-DNS> * API origin: https://<API-GW-ID>.execute-api.<region>.amazonaws.com Those are different origins → the browser enforces CORS → without CORS, calls can fail (blocked by browser). ==== When you do NOT need CORS ==== You do not need CORS if the browser never calls a different origin. You can avoid CORS in either of these patterns: ===== 1) Same-origin routing (recommended if you want simplicity) ===== Put both UI and API behind the same ALB domain using path routing: * http://<ALB-DNS>/ → Streamlit * http://<ALB-DNS>/api/... → FastAPI Now the browser sees one origin (<ALB-DNS>), so no CORS is needed. (You can still keep two ECS services; the “same-origin” part is just the public URL.) ===== 2) Server-to-server calls only (rare with Streamlit UI) ===== If the Streamlit server (Python runtime in ECS) calls FastAPI server-to-server and the browser never calls the API directly, then CORS is irrelevant. In practice, many Streamlit apps do trigger browser-originated calls (depending on how you implement chat, streaming, etc.), so you usually assume CORS is needed unless you intentionally design same-origin. ==== Practical recommendation for your setup ==== * If you are using API Gateway URL from the UI (ALB URL): enable CORS and restrict it to the UI origin (your ALB DNS). * If you prefer to avoid CORS entirely, expose the API under the same ALB domain (path routing), and optionally keep API Gateway only for external API clients (not for the UI). If you tell me which URL your Streamlit app calls today (API_BASE_URL = API Gateway URL or ALB URL), I can tell you definitively whether CORS is required and where to configure it (FastAPI, API Gateway, or both).
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