How I Deployed FastAPI to EC2 with HTTPS Using API Gateway

Intro I wanted to deploy my FastAPI backend on AWS EC2 and get a proper HTTPS URL without dealing with SSL certificates manually. Turns out API Gateway handles all of that for you — but getting there wasn't as smooth as I expected. Here's everything I went through, including the parts where I got stuck. EC2 instance setup is covered in my previous post, so I'll skip that part here! Overview FastAPI App ↓ Dockerize & deploy on EC2 ↓ Connect API Gateway ↓ HTTPS URL ready to go Step 1. Elastic