hosting a Cloudfront site with S3 and API Gateway

Tue, 09 May 2017 13:08:54 +0200

Here my scenario I try to cover this time.

Scenario:

host a webpage through S3 with Cloudfront as CDN
host an API through ApiGateway with Cloudfront in front

As picture this would look like this:

The use case would be to host the API and static resources within one domain. The obvious perk of this architecture would be no more CORS dependency.

I use a CloudFormation template as project definition for this task.

Publish an S3 Event to Lambda through SNS

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:00:54 +0200

My path through starting with AWS CloudFormation was a somewhat rocky path. Often I wished for simple CF Templates which would only show one pattern at a time. So I’m starting a short series where I will try to describe some patterns I experienced and hopefully lower the entry barrier for CloudFormation since it is great tool.

Scenario:

Raise an S3-Object-Create event
Publish that event to SNS
Subscribe to that event with a Lambda

As picture this would look like this:

S3 on My personal blog

hosting a Cloudfront site with S3 and API Gateway

Publish an S3 Event to Lambda through SNS