Dockerized self-hosted with AWS RDS

[Woitekku]

I am in the process of setting up a self-hosted, dockerized Cal.com instance on AWS ECS (Fargate) using AWS RDS for the database. I’m encountering two issues and would appreciate your assistance and clarification:

Unable to connect to the database over SSL/TLS
When I add ?sslmode=require to either DATABASE_URL or DATABASE_DIRECT_URL (e.g., postgresql://user:xxx@host:5432/calendso?sslmode=require), the application returns the following error:
P1011 – Error opening a TLS connection: self-signed certificate in certificate chain
I have searched through GitHub issues for both Cal.com and Prisma, but I have not found any relevant information.

API container exits unexpectedly
The API container terminates without a clear reason. The only log entry I see is:
[Nest] 61 - 11/20/2025, 8:42:06 PM WARN [WebPush] Missing VAPID keys. Web push notifications are disabled.

I am wondering whether the absence of the REDIS_URL environment variable could be contributing to this behavior.

That is the runtime ENVs schema I used:
DATABASE_URL: postgresql://user:xxx@host:5432/calendso
DATABASE_DIRECT_URL: postgresql://user:xxx@host:5432/calendso
DATABASE_READ_URL: postgresql://user:xxx@host:5432/calendso
DATABASE_WRITE_URL: postgresql://user:xxx@host:5432/calendso
NEXTAUTH_SECRET: J5exxx
CALENDSO_ENCRYPTION_KEY: J5exxx
JWT_SECRET: J5exxx
NEXT_PUBLIC_WEBAPP_URL: https://calcom.example.com/
NEXT_PUBLIC_API_V2_URL: https://calcom.example.com/api/v2
CALCOM_TELEMETRY_DISABLED: true
NODE_ENV: production
ENVIRONMENT: qa
LOG_LEVEL: INFO
CALCOM_LICENSE_KEY: cal_live_4fhxxx
CAL_SIGNATURE_TOKEN: cal_sk_JzTxxx
CALCOM_PRIVATE_API_ROUTE: https://goblin.cal.com/

Could you please provide guidance on these issues?

[Woitekku]

With redis:
REDIS_URL: rediss://auth_token@host:6379

same behaviour for api: exit code 1 and only this in the logs:
[33m[Nest] 61 - �[39m11/21/2025, 9:48:12 AM �[33m WARN�[39m �[38;5;3m[WebPush] �[39m�[33mMissing VAPID keys. Web push notifications are disabled.�[39m

[Hussain101]

I am having the same issue, I have mailed them also. There is no response from them their community is too slow.