diff --git a/Dockerfile-cache b/Dockerfile-cache
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd25492
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile-cache
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+FROM nginx
+
+RUN mkdir -p /var/lib/nginx/cache && \
+	chown www-data /var/lib/nginx/cache && \
+	chmod 700 /var/lib/nginx/cache
+
+COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
diff --git a/aws_push.sh b/aws_push.sh
index 52e5192..cfa03cb 100644
--- a/aws_push.sh
+++ b/aws_push.sh
@@ -2,5 +2,7 @@
 eval $(aws ecr get-login --no-include-email)
 docker tag "sefaria-docker_web:latest" "058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-sefaria-api:latest"
 docker tag "sefaria-docker_mongo:latest" "058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-sefaria-db:latest"
+docker tag "sefaria-docker_cache:latest" "058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-cache-api:latest"
 docker push "058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-sefaria-api:latest"
 docker push "058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-sefaria-db:latest"
+docker push "058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-cache-api:latest"
diff --git a/docker-compose.cloud.yml b/docker-compose.cloud.yml
index 468c8e1..fb14122 100644
--- a/docker-compose.cloud.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.cloud.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,15 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - mongo
       - redis
+  cache:
+    restart: always
+    image: 058331968334.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/shitufta-cache-api
+    volumes:
+      - api-cache:/var/lib/nginx/cache
+    ports:
+      - "8080:80"
+    depends_on:
+      - web
+
+volumes:
+  api-cache:
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 756a313..3aff6f4 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - mongo
       - redis
+  cache:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile-cache
+    ports:
+      - "8080:80"
+    depends_on:
+      - web
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb4474f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# daemon off;
+error_log /dev/stdout info;
+user  nginx;
+worker_processes  1;
+
+error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
+pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
+
+events {
+    worker_connections  1024;
+}
+
+
+http {
+    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+
+    # access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
+	access_log /dev/stdout;
+
+
+    sendfile        on;
+    #tcp_nopush     on;
+
+    keepalive_timeout  65;
+	
+	
+	proxy_cache_path /var/lib/nginx/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=backcache:8m max_size=1g;
+
+
+    server {
+		listen 80;
+	
+			proxy_cache_key "$host$request_uri$cookie_user";
+			proxy_cache_valid 200 302 10h;
+			proxy_cache backcache;
+			proxy_cache_bypass $cookie_nocache $arg_nocache$arg_comment;
+			proxy_ignore_headers Set-Cookie;
+
+		
+			chunked_transfer_encoding off; 
+# Enable Gzip compressed.
+  gzip on;
+
+  # Enable compression both for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 (required for CloudFront).
+  gzip_http_version  1.0;
+
+  # Compression level (1-9).
+  # 5 is a perfect compromise between size and cpu usage, offering about
+  # 75% reduction for most ascii files (almost identical to level 9).
+  gzip_comp_level    5;
+
+  # Don't compress anything that's already small and unlikely to shrink much
+  # if at all (the default is 20 bytes, which is bad as that usually leads to
+  # larger files after gzipping).
+  gzip_min_length    256;
+
+  # Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies,
+  # identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront).
+  gzip_proxied       any;
+
+  # Tell proxies to cache both the gzipped and regular version of a resource
+  # whenever the client's Accept-Encoding capabilities header varies;
+  # Avoids the issue where a non-gzip capable client (which is extremely rare
+  # today) would display gibberish if their proxy gave them the gzipped version.
+  gzip_vary          on;
+
+	gzip_buffers 16 8k;
+
+  # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types.
+  gzip_types
+    application/atom+xml
+    application/javascript
+    application/json
+    application/rss+xml
+    application/vnd.ms-fontobject
+    application/x-font-ttf
+    application/x-web-app-manifest+json
+    application/xhtml+xml
+    application/xml
+    font/opentype
+    image/svg+xml
+    image/x-icon
+    text/css
+    text/plain
+    text/x-component;
+        location / {
+            proxy_pass http://web:8000/api/;
+        }
+    }
+
+    # include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
+}