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Ditching the AWS GUI Console

Serverless Infrastructure as Code via AWS CloudFormation

Robert Boscacci
Towards Data Science
10 min readSep 21, 2020

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GitHub Repo / Source Code Here!

2020–09–10

Backstory:

When I used to work at a Data Analytics firm in Times Square, I’d frequently enjoy lunch on the beautiful Bryant Park Lawn. I could check https://bryantpark.org/ to see if the lawn was currently open, but the org page loaded somewhat slowly; it was full of images I didn’t care about.

Because of this (and a desire to learn AWS things), I spun up a dumb single-serving website from an ec2 box, which just said whether or not the lawn was open. You’d go to “is the bryant park lawn open dot com” and see this:

Inspired by http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

In the malaise of the COVID pandemic, my humble site has fallen into disrepair, offering the opportunity to make some retrofits. The last time I worked on this, I relied heavily upon the clicking around in the AWS GUI console method, in a web browser—a behavior I’d like to get away from.

Goal:

Today, I’m setting out to re-engineer this (whimsical, arguably “dumb” or “nobody-asked-for-this”) service as an AWS-based serverless infrastructure—leveraging the SAM CLI, provisioning with CloudFormation, and leaning on a variety of other code…

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