When our group of 11 was handed the brief for our DMI DevOps Micro-Internship capstone project, the goal was clear: take a real-world microservices application and deploy it end-to-end on AWS using production-grade tooling. No shortcuts, no simulated environments. The kind of setup you'd actually find in a professional engineering team. The application we worked with was Spring PetClinic — a veterinary clinic management system built as 8 independent Spring Boot microservices. On the surface it's