Week 5 Worklog

Week 5 — 13/07 – 19/07/2026

Overall

First AWS cloud deployment, SAM stack deployment, and cost guardrails.

Tasks Done

  • AWS Cloud Environment Prep: Configured deployment credentials and prepared AWS SAM CLI environment for live stack creation.
  • AWS SAM Stack Deployment: Executed sam build and sam deploy --guided to launch the initial live cloud stack (chrome-flashcard-dev) in region ap-southeast-1.
  • Resource Provisioning Verification: Verified successfully provisioned cloud resources: API Gateway HTTP API, Node.js Lambda function (serverless-http), DynamoDB NoSQL tables (UsersTable, FlashcardsTable, CategoriesTable), and private S3 export bucket.
  • Financial & Cost Guardrails: Verified AWS Budget alerts, configured CloudWatch log group 7-day retention rules, and enabled scale-to-zero compute settings.

Results Achieved

  • Live AWS Stack: Successfully deployed live cloud infrastructure stack chrome-flashcard-dev.
  • Operational Cloud Endpoints: Verified production API health check returning HTTP 200 OK.
  • Active Cost Protections: Enforced CloudWatch log retention and AWS budget guardrails ensuring baseline costs stay under $5 USD/month.