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Can you elaborate a bit more detail around a MVP-style architecture where the database isn't on the public internet?

I assume you're talking about something like a public facing load balancer that connects into a private network where the web servers and database server live, and you'd need a bastion host (or just the load balancer) to connect into the private network and access any of the machines.

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Yes ... that's about the simplest form. If you want to get really fancy you can use a further cloistered machine with hardware encryption and a key that's only inserted when the machine is booted but that's pretty excessive. The main thing is that you don't want your database server's port exposed to the Internet and you don't want your database on your web servers (the most likely part of your infrastructure to be compromised).

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