Describe it, refine it, export it — and run it locally when MiniStack supports the services.
Architecture
Client → API Gateway → Lambda → DynamoDB. The classic pay-per-use backend: designed from one sentence, exported to Terraform and testable locally before you touch an AWS account.
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“A serverless REST API with API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB, with logs in CloudWatch”
Run the simulation to route traffic to the deployed MiniStack resources.
Architecture
EventBridge routes events to an SNS topic that fans out to SQS queues consumed by Lambda workers. Deploy it to MiniStack and publish from the consoles to watch messages flow.
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“An event-driven architecture: an EventBridge bus, an SNS topic fanning out to two SQS queues, each processed by a Lambda function”
Architecture
Producers write to a Kinesis stream; Lambda processes batches, stores raw events in S3 and keeps aggregates in DynamoDB.
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“Clickstream ingestion with a Kinesis stream, a Lambda consumer, S3 for raw events and DynamoDB for aggregates”
Kinesis streams deploy locally as single-shard streams and have no interactive console.
Architecture
Land raw files in S3, catalog them with Glue, transform with a PySpark job into a curated bucket and query with Athena. With MiniStack the PySpark job runs for real in a local Glue container — no AWS account, no cost.
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“A data lake: an S3 raw bucket, an AWS Glue catalog and PySpark ETL job, an S3 curated bucket, queried with Athena”
Needs the :full MiniStack image, the Docker socket and the OpenArchFlow Glue image. Terraform export covers S3, the Glue catalog database and the Athena workgroup; jobs are authored in Glue Studio.
Architecture
Route 53 and CloudFront in front of an ALB, containers on ECS Fargate, RDS for persistence and ElastiCache for sessions, inside a VPC with public and private subnets. Ideal for design reviews, Terraform scaffolding and cost estimates.
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“A three-tier web app: CloudFront, an ALB, an ECS Fargate service, RDS PostgreSQL and ElastiCache Redis inside a VPC with public and private subnets across two AZs”
These services are not part of the one-click local deploy.
Architecture
Scan a live account, import 24 supported services as an editable diagram with connections inferred from ARNs, then export it to Terraform to start bringing legacy infrastructure under IaC.
How it works
Import from AWS → pick services and resources → refine the diagram → export Terraform
Supports AWS SSO or access keys. A permission error on one service doesn't block the rest of the scan.
One-click local deploy currently covers 14 service types: S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, API Gateway, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, CloudWatch Logs and Glue. Everything else is available for design, Terraform export and, where supported, cost estimates.