AWS URL Shortener

This is a simple AWS URL shortener created by using AWS CDK in Python. The stack is defined inside aws_url_shortener_stack.py file and the the Lambda code is defined inside the lambda folder. Currently it uses the folowing AWS services:

• API Gateway
• DynamoDB
• Lambd Function

This project was create mainly as a way to experiment with the AWS CDK functionalities.

Setup

To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:

$ python3 -m venv .venv

After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.

$ source .venv/bin/activate

If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv like this:

% .venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

You will also need to install the AWS CDK:

$ npm install -g aws-cdk

Dont forget to setup your AWS credentials, CDK will use the same credentials used by AWS CLI, however you can also define it inside of the app.py.

Deployment

Before the first deployment you'll need to bootstrap your account with the following command:

$ cdk bootstrap

Then you'll be able to deploy the stack:

$ cdk deploy

To remove and clear everything related to the stack on you account:

$ cdk destroy

Tip: If you have multiple profiles configured on your system, you can use the --profile option during the CDK commands to define which one to use, ie.:

$ cdk deploy --profile default