886: AWS and IAC for Dummies with SST
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Wes and Scott talk about Infrastructure as Code and how SST makes deploying to AWS easier than ever. They dive into SST’s features, developer experience, and how it simplifies managing services like databases, email, and more. Plus, insights on Cloudflare integration, auto-scaling, and real-world use cases.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:37 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 04:52 Intro to SST config
- 05:40 Overview of Scott’s SST config file
- 12:33 Exploring SST’s endless capabilities
- 15:42 The SST developer experience
- 19:05 SST console and GUI overview
- 22:13 Resource management and pricing
- 24:52 Secrets management
- 27:38 Tunneling and security
- 30:52 Simplifying DNS
- 35:18 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. Today, we're going to be talking about infrastructure as code and |
| 0:06.2 | AWS Cloudflare, these types of things with something called SST. We had Dax Rad on the show |
| 0:12.8 | a little while ago to talk about SST and some of the things he's been up to, but I hadn't gotten my |
| 0:17.7 | hands dirty with it until now. And I've been deploying things on AWS with |
| 0:23.5 | SST. And let me tell you, it makes it way easier than ever having to deal with AWS services. |
| 0:30.3 | In fact, when I press deploy on what I'm working with, it modifies like 30 different things |
| 0:37.0 | in AWS. |
| 0:38.2 | And I don't have to know what those things are. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't have to click through the GUIs. |
| 0:41.0 | I don't have to get all my roles and all that stuff. |
| 0:43.4 | So we're going to be talking all about how you can utilize these skills to both deploy |
| 0:47.3 | on AWS as well as anywhere that supports Terraform or Pulumi, I believe it's called. If I pronounce that wrong, you can correct me. |
| 0:57.8 | Either way, my name is Scott Toulinski. I'm a developer from Denver. With me as always is Wes Boss. |
| 1:02.2 | What's up, Wes? Hey, yeah, this sounds exciting. We had Dax on a long time ago. |
| 1:08.4 | Probably like two years ago just when this thing was just kicking off. |
| 1:11.7 | And it seems like it is so much more mature and like obviously very usable right now. |
| 1:19.2 | And this is awesome because like a lot of people do want to be able to deploy to something like |
| 1:24.7 | AWS, but it's just not worth the pain of having to do that |
| 1:30.9 | type of thing. So like SST is, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a way to configure your |
| 1:39.5 | deployment architecture with code. So this is not something you build an app with, |
| 1:44.7 | but it's a way to put all the pieces together, |
| 1:48.1 | which is like servers and image storage and all that stuff. |
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