Show HN: AWS-Powered Rube Goldberg Machine https://ift.tt/2UId1C2

Show HN: AWS-Powered Rube Goldberg Machine AWS has so many services—like more than most of us can name. What are some creative ways you can stitch them together to accomplish simple tasks in the most roundabout of ways? Get creative! This isn't about being practical! Here's a theoretical example of how to create a GIF! (Steps 4 through 998 are left as an exercise for creative readers!) 1. Add a new AWS IAM user, gif-creator, where each frame that will be part of the final GIF is base64 encoded and included as tag to the IAM user. 2. This triggers a CloudTrail event to be logged and published to Simple Notification Service. 3. Upon receiving this event, a lambda gets triggered that builds a Docker container that simply scans your domain for new DNS records. Additionally, the lambda spins up an entire Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster with that Docker container. . . . 999. You now have a GIF in your inbox! April 6, 2020 at 02:10AM