AWS Lambda is a big deal; it allows people to write reliable web services quickly and easily. In this post, we’re going to be exploring how to build a very simple image hosting service with Lambda, S3, and Dynamo.

It’s important to ensure that when building things, iteration is fast. I invested some time in making sure that writing posts is as easy as possible. This post will outline how I wrote and deployed it.

Writing the post
I use a great static site generator called Hugo to render this blog.
First, I created a new post using the command
hugo new post/how-i-wrote-this-blog-post.md