Project URL: https://github.com/corymullins/wagtail_lambda

  I built a Django website on my local machine, utilizing PostgreSQL and Wagtail framework. After exploring options to host the site on AWS in a manner which would allow increased scalability over a Docker container, I decided to implement it via Lambda. Once deployed, the website run on Lambda, behind API Gateway, and maintains its state with RDS Aurora and S3.

Completed:

• Django blog website created locally.
• Wrote Terraform code to migrate site to AWS.
• Created Role to assume temporary permissions for migration.

In-Progress:

• Due to API Gateway spinning up the database on first call, the website can appear to be unresponsive.
• Several steps of migration are manually implemented. Explore methods to better automate deployment of Lambda functions and run tests.
• Explore ways to reduce operational costs. The website incurs charges for RDS, VPC endpoints, S3, and Lambda.