I commented on this blog post when it first came out. I think the only point that really holds up is the documentation complaint, which can be made about pretty

I commented on this blog post when it first came out. I think the only point that really holds up is the documentation complaint, which can be made about pretty much any of the fast-moving cloud platforms. AWS is certainly no worse, and in some respects much better, than most. Beyond that I guess the main thing that struck me was the complaint about the number of manual steps. Anything you do in the console on AWS takes a lot of steps. The alternative is to avoid the console, and instead use the aws cli client and write scripts to automate the process of creating and configuring the lambda function and gateway. API gateway is a bigger pain than lambda, just because of the request and response mapping that has to be set up, but thankfully it can be configured using swagger, which is perfect for a scripted deployment.