In order to deploy your infrastructure more efficiently in AWS you can utilize a golden AMI. This is a machine image you create by installing everything you need, applications, dependencies, etc, on an EC2 instance and take an image from that and use that to deploy more instances. This will save a lot of time in configuration. In order to more quickly deploy EBS and RDS you can restore from snapshot and it will contain your data and format. This can save you a ton of time as you will not need to reconfigure RDS and EBS back to the desired settings.