I no longer actively develop this project. It was made in a way that it is quite easy to install and run, but not that easy to modify the code and expand on it.

If you are looking for a more developer friendly framework to make serverless web pages on AWS, please look at my other project: https://awly.io

LambdaBlogPlatform

serverless blogging platform built with AWS

About
Installation prerequisites
Installation
Advanced installation

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AWS Lambda Blog Platform is a complete blogging solution that uses the following Amazon Web Services for operation:

API Gateway
Lambda
DynamoDB
S3
Cloudfront
SES

It runs completely serverless - free of any inflexible hardware infrastructure. The whole system running as a team of small microservices means that the running expenses are without any overhead even at the smallest scale.

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Have an AWS account
Have your domain/subdomain set up in Route53
Make sure you can receive email at one of the following addresses for https certificate generation (if you dont have a mail server set up, you can use https://github.com/sirceljm/AWS-SES-simple-mail-forward to forward emails to your email address)
Request a new certificate in AWS ACM (https://console.aws.amazon.com/acm/home?region=us-east-1#/) (THIS HAS TO BE ISSUED IN the us-east-1 REGION!!!)
- If you are using just the domain - the certificate name should be domain.com
- If you are using a subdomain - the certificate name should be subdomain.domain.com or *.domain.com

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Download this repo, unzip and cd to project folder
Run npm install
Create a new user in IAM
- [IAM -> Users -> Add User -> Access type -> check Programmatic access]
- On the last step click on Download .csv file and save the file in project folder

Add permissions to the user

[IAM -> Users -> your_user -> Permissions -> Add inline policy -> Custom policy]
Copy the following JSON and give your inline policy a name

  {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
          {
              "Sid": "Stmt1481118325000",
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": [
                  "iam:CreatePolicy",
                  "iam:CreateRole",
                  "iam:GetPolicy",
                  "iam:GetRole",
                  "iam:AttachUserPolicy",
                  "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
                  "iam:PassRole",
                  "route53:ListHostedZones",
                  "acm:ListCertificates",
                  "iam:ListUserPolicies",
                  "iam:GetUserPolicy"
              ],
              "Resource": [
                  "*"
              ]
          }
      ]
  }

The install script will add other permissions that are necessary for installation
Run node install.js
The wizard will take you through the process of installation
If everything went smoothly you should see your page after CloudFront changes resolve. This usually takes around 15 minutes.

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Download this repo, unzip and cd to project folder
Run npm install
Create a new user in IAM (you will put this user name into install_config.js later)
[IAM -> Users -> Add User -> Access type -> check Programmatic access]

Copy account keys for the user and make a json file that looks like this:
user_access_keys

{
  "accessKeyId": "AK************",
  "secretAccessKey": "BX**********************",
  "region": "eu-west-1"
}

Add a new inline policy to the user

[IAM -> Users -> your_user -> Permissions -> Add inline policy -> Custom policy -> Select -> Copy JSON below and enter a policy name


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1481118325000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:CreatePolicy",
                "iam:CreateRole",
                "iam:GetPolicy",
                "iam:GetRole",
                "iam:AttachUserPolicy",
                "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
                "iam:PassRole",
                "route53:ListHostedZones",
                "acm:ListCertificates",
                "iam:ListUserPolicies",
                "iam:GetUserPolicy"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

-> Attach policy]

The install script will add other permissions that are necessary for installation
Copy and save the Hosted Zone ID for your domain
Copy this certificate ARN - and paste it into install_config.js
Get your recaptcha key (you can edit this later in API Gateway)
Copy install/install_config_template.js to install/install_config.js
Change values in install/install_config.js
Run node install_advanced.js
If everything went smoothly you should see your page after CloudFront changes resolve, which usually takes around 15 minutes