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Every now and then I find myself with the need to quickly create a small website, for instance as a static backend or a help page to one of my apps. I have a couple of requirements for this:

I want a custom (sub)domain. For now I host everything on claude-apps.com, but this could change. I want to serve my website on HTTPS (obviously). I want the website to be securely setup, in a minimal number of clicks. I want to be able to access the log files. I don’t want anything I didn’t ask for (in the form of trackers, or advertisements, or pay walls, etc).

After writing about how to create AWS Lambda Layers based on pip packages, I set out to make writing lambda functions in CloudFormation a bit easier. In the official CloudFormation AWS::Lambda::Function you either must upload your functions as zipfile to S3 and reference them from there, or, if you want them inline, you run into 3 large issues You’re limited to 4096 bytes of code (meaning in my experience that as the code gets more complex, you start saving on comments, function names, error checking, etc, making the whole thing even harder to read and maintain).