Understanding the Architecture

Overview of the AWS EC2 Container architecture.

This section describes the Protegrity AWS EC2 Protector architecture for EC2 Linux deployment using dynamic deployment of policies.

Key features of a dynamic-based deployment include:

  • The deployments can be used in use cases where policy updates need to be available on the cluster continuously.
  • The RPSync component is synchronized with the ESA for policy updates at a predefined rate.
  • The dynamic deployment requires the ESA to be always connected to support the policy updates.

The following figure represents the architecture for deploying the Protegrity AWS EC2 Protector with RPSync on an EC2 instance.

Workflow for the Protegrity AWS EC2 Protector Integration with RPSync

Deployment Steps:

  1. Trigger the stack creation using the CloudFormation template.

  2. The AWS EC2 instance is created.

  3. Launch the Log Forwarder and the AWS EC2 protector using the user data scripts.

  4. Start the AWS EC2 protector.

  5. At periodic intervals, the RPSync component tries to pull the new policy package from the ESA.


Last modified : February 25, 2026