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73. What is AWS Application Composer?


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In this episode, we're going to be talking about AWS Application Composer - a FREE service that promises to help you build serverless applications with ease. With its simple drag-and-drop interface, it's supposed to make Infrastructure as Code a breeze. But the real question is - does it live up to the hype?

We know a lot of you are probably struggling with building applications using CloudFormation. It's a real pain, right? So, we decided to take Application Composer for a spin and see if it's worth adding to your toolkit or giving it a hard pass.
After covering a generic overview of the service, how it works, and the main concepts, we discuss our experience in creating a new simple serverless application from scratch only using API Gateway, Lambda, and S3. Then we cover what it looks like to import an existing project (a slightly more complicated one) into Application Composer and find out what works and what doesn't.
We conclude by discussing some other things that didn't work as expected and by providing our general recommendation on whether you should be using this service today.


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AWS Bites is sponsored by ⁠fourTheorem⁠, an AWS Consulting Partner offering training, cloud migration, and modern application architecture.


In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

  • ⁠Web platform filesystem Access API
  • The current status of cross-browser support for the File System Access API
  • Our first Application Composer demo source code
  • Earthquake notifier serverless project
  • Our previous episode on Fargate and how to optimize cost for it

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