AWS

Deploy a Minecraft server with AWS Fargate and AWS CDK

This demo will use CDK to deploy a Minecraft server on AWS Fargate using Route 53 as the trigger

Conditional Resource Deployment and Environment Variables with CDK

This demo will describe how to create a CDK with conditional resource deployment and how to use Environment Variables with that conditional deployment

Using a Typescript Lambda as a CDK Construct Custom Resource

An update to the previous CDK Construct Custom Resource post. This time we will be using Typescript instead of JavaScript for the Lambda function.

Deploying a Python Lambda with Requirements using CDK

This article will show you how to deploy a Python Lambda function with additional dependencies using CDK

Deploying a NextJS SSR Application to Amplify

[NextJS](https://nextjs.org/learn/foundations/about-nextjs/what-is-nextjs) is a powerful React framework that we can use to deploy directly from GitHub to [AWS Amplify](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/). We will also be using [CodeSandbox](https://codesandbox.io/docs/overview) to work with the cod...

Create AMI CDK Construct

Creating an [AMI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html) (Amazon Machine Image) can be done via the AWS Console. It can also be created via AWS CLI or SDKs. This CDK Construct will assist with the creation of an AMI as part of a [CDK](https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/) deploym...

A CDK Construct for Importing Amazon Lex Bots

To add on to the previous [article](https://subaud.io/importing-an-amazon-lex-bot-with-cdk/) that described how to import an Amazon Lex Bot with CDK, I have created a [CDK Construct](https://constructs.dev/packages/cdk-lex-zip-import/v/0.0.4?lang=typescript) that you can import and use in your ow...

Importing an Amazon Lex Bot with CDK

Amazon Lex Bots are a way to use natural language conversational interfaces that can be used through a variety of integrations such as Facebook and Slack. A Lex Bot can be built and deployed through the AWS console. However, it can also be deployed by CDK, Cloudformation, or SDK. In this post,...

Creating a Full Stack App with CDK Pipelines

This example will build a CDK Pipeline that will build a backend and frontend and then pass API Gateway URL information from the backend to the frontend. This information can be used to make calls to the backend without having to manually pass the URL information. When connected to a Github repo...

Building an EC2 Instance with CDKv2 and Cloud-Init

Cloud-init is a powerful way of configuring an EC2 instance. CDK can create an EC2 instance and use cloud-init to pass dynamically created variables to this EC2 instance which can be used to configure the instance. When combined, these tools can be used to create fully configured and deployed dy...