diff --git a/.github/workflows/push_release.yml b/.github/workflows/push_release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..84b8917d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/push_release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+name: Deploy Release to ECR
+on:
+  #  release:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+  workflow_dispatch: # Allow manual invocation of the workflow
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # These permissions are needed to interact with GitHub's OIDC Token endpoint.
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Get the tag version
+        id: get_version
+        run: echo ::set-output name=TAG_NAME::${GITHUB_REF/refs\/tags\//}
+
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        id: aws-credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
+        with:
+          #          role-to-assume: ${{ secrets.AWS_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN }}
+          aws-region: "us-east-1"
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+
+      - name: Login to Amazon ECR
+        id: login-ecr
+        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v2
+        with:
+          registry-type: public
+
+      - name: Build, tag, and push image to Amazon ECR
+        id: build-image
+        env:
+          ECR_REGISTRY: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}
+          ECR_REPOSITORY: ${{ secrets.ECR_REPOSITORY }}
+          IMAGE_TAG: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.TAG_NAME }} #${{ github.sha }}
+        run: |
+          cp infrastructure/backend/Dockerfile ./Dockerfile
+          docker build -t $ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG .
+          docker push $ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG
+          echo "::set-output name=image::$ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG"
+          docker build -t $ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:latest .
+          docker push $ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:latest
+          echo "::set-output name=latest_image::$ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:latest"
diff --git a/settings/prod_settings.py b/settings/prod_settings.py
index 38eb8c557..b8d6721fc 100644
--- a/settings/prod_settings.py
+++ b/settings/prod_settings.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-import os, environ
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import environ
 
 env = environ.Env()
 environ.Env.read_env()
@@ -9,21 +12,35 @@
     f'https://{os.environ.get("URL")}',
     f'https://{os.environ.get("PROXY_IP")}',
 ]
+BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+
+DB_TYPE = os.environ.get("DATABASE_TYPE")
+DB_TYPE = DB_TYPE.lower() if DB_TYPE else ""  # sqlite is disabled for production
+
+DB_TYPE = "mysql" if DB_TYPE in ["mysql", "mariadb"] else DB_TYPE
 
 DATABASES = {
     "default": {
-        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.mysql",
-        "NAME": os.environ.get("DATABASE_NAME"),
-        "USER": os.environ.get("DATABASE_USER"),
-        "PASSWORD": os.environ.get("DATABASE_PASS"),
-        "HOST": os.environ.get("DATABASE_HOST"),
-        "PORT": os.environ.get("DATABASE_PORT") or 3306,
+        "ENGINE": (
+            "django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2"
+            if DB_TYPE == "mysql"
+            else "django.db.backends.postgresql"
+        ),
+        "NAME": os.environ.get("DATABASE_NAME") or "myfinances_development",
+        "USER": os.environ.get("DATABASE_USER") or "root",
+        "PASSWORD": os.environ.get("DATABASE_PASS") or "",
+        "HOST": os.environ.get("DATABASE_HOST") or "localhost",
+        "PORT": os.environ.get("DATABASE_PORT")
+        or (3306 if DB_TYPE == "mysql" else 5432),
         "OPTIONS": {
             "sql_mode": "traditional",
         },
     }
 }
 
+print(f"[BACKEND] Using {DB_TYPE} database: {os.environ.get('DATABASE_NAME')}")
+
+
 ALLOWED_HOSTS = [os.environ.get("URL")]