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Deploy Express App as AWS Lambda Container with API Gateway using Terraform

Samuel Ronick on January 31, 2024

Welcome to a comprehensive tutorial where we'll navigate through a seamless step-by-step process to containerize your application, deploy it to AWS...
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Allen Lyons

Thanks for all of this, it is something I had to figure out in the past but it is great to see all the pieces in one article.

I am curious why you would use docker for a node app when lambda has native node support. I can think of a few reasons, but it would interesting to hear the decision process.

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Samuel Ronick

thanks for your comment. I used docker basically do demostrate ecr and lambda setup process. however, if you have a large application that you want to deploy to lambda, container image is the best option.