Building a Serverless Website on AWS (and GCP)
The article discusses building a serverless website using AWS and GCP. It highlights the differences in implementation between the two cloud providers while following a similar architecture. The author shares insights on challenges faced during the project and the benefits of hands-on experience with cloud services.
- ▪The project involves building a resume site using cloud services from AWS and GCP.
- ▪AWS services used include S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB, while GCP uses Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Firestore.
- ▪The author emphasizes the importance of understanding the differences in implementation between AWS and GCP.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/danphilllips-cloud/building-a-serverless-website-on-aws-and-gcp-5l |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 12:24:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T12:40:18.509Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T12:40:18.509Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 2OJQw6zFRcj1 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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