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Discussion on: Applying the Well-Architected Framework, Small Edition

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Stephen Gerkin

Good to know about the Lambdas and NAT. A bit disappointed, but not entirely surprised. But, because it's a brand new offering, maybe this will change in the future as the service evolves. For an enterprise solution, this is probably not a deal-breaker, but for a student like me, it's definitely cost-prohibitive for portfolio projects I want to keep going on a long-term basis.

The project is definitely just a learning project! I did a few projects in the past with Lambda and DynamoDB and did not completely understand how they work. I have a much better understanding now, but definitely want to learn more. I am also considering playing around with Aurora serverless and a CMS is a fairly simple use case to integrate all of the above and get some experience with them.

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Mark Nunnikhoven

Yes, for work production accounts the NAT gateway cost is usually a drop in the bucket. Though it would be nice to see some sort of slicker solution there for purely serverless setups.

Your CMS efforts sound like a lot of fun. Aurora serverless is very cool and also pretty straight forward. For the DynamoDB piece, have you read Alex Debrie's book dynamodbbook.com/?

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Stephen Gerkin

I have not, I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!