Short links.
Built on AWS.
Paste any URL, get a sharp short link powered by API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB — no servers to manage, no bills when idle.
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No sign-up. No tracking. Links live as long as the table does.
Architecture
Why serverless wins
Every decision in this stack is intentional — zero waste, maximum throughput, pay-per-invocation economics.
Sub-50ms Edge Latency
API Gateway with CloudFront distribution routes requests to the nearest AWS edge node — users get responses before they blink.
Zero-Cost Serverless Core
Lambda's 1M free invocations per month means your shortener runs for free at moderate scale. No EC2, no RDS, no idle spend.
On-Demand DynamoDB Scaling
DynamoDB On-Demand mode absorbs any traffic spike with single-digit millisecond reads. No capacity planning, ever.
IAM-First Security Model
Fine-grained IAM roles scope Lambda execution to exactly the DynamoDB table it needs — principle of least privilege by default.
Infrastructure as Code
The entire stack is defined with SAM/CloudFormation — deploy to any region in under 60 seconds with a single sam deploy.
Global HTTPS Endpoints
Every route served over TLS 1.3 via API Gateway's managed certificates. No certificate rotation headaches, ever.
Request Flow