[throwaway2016a]

Same, I do it routinely and maybe the first time I ever did it, it took me a week but after that it was fast. But I may be being generous.

The only thing that could make that tough is if you put the Lambdas in a VPC. That can get tricky because you have to plan out subnets and whatnot but still not a week.

The AWS documentation is also extremely good with regards to what properties are on each resource. I can't speak for Terraform since I usually use CloudFormation / SAM directly. Maybe it's a Terraform problem?

[acdha]

> The only thing that could make that tough is if you put the Lambdas in a VPC. That can get tricky because you have to plan out subnets and whatnot but still not a week.

Yeah, it’s about 20 minutes if you use the VPC and Lambda modules from https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules. I could see a week if you had to learn all of this first with little prior experience but that’s true of everything. A newbie running a Linux colo server isn’t going to get all of the security & reliability issues right in less time, either.