This proof of concept was built to show the ability to do geosearching in AWS DynamoDB. It uses open source software to geocode and store/read/update geopoints in dynamo. For a detailed breakdown of this repository, refer to the article on Medium.

• Dynamodb-geo
• Geocodio

The CloudFormation script (template.yaml) will deploy a handful of serverless resources to your AWS account:

• 1 x Public API (API Gateway)
• 1 x NoSQL Table (DynamoDB)
• 4 x CRUD Functions (Lambda)
• 4 x Roles with Policies (IAM)

In order to properly run and deploy this app, you must perform the following

1. Setup an AWS account
2. Install the AWS CLI
3. Configure the AWS CLI to use your account
4. Setup an S3 bucket
5. Sign up for a free Geocodio api key
6. Install Git

1. Clone the repository to your local machine
2. In the template.yaml file, change REPLACE_ME with your Geocodio api key
3. In the root package.json, change REPLACE_ME with the name of your S3 bucket

You are able to deploy the solution any way you'd like, but included in the root package.json is a script that will automatically build, package, and deploy the solution to AWS for you. Just run the following command to deploy

npm run deploy