TinyURLCDK

TinyURLCDK is a serverless URL shortening service built with AWS CDK in TypeScript. It provides APIs to create shortened URLs and retrieve original links.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• AWS CDK (TypeScript) – Infrastructure as Code
• AWS Lambda – Serverless compute for business logic
• Amazon API Gateway – RESTful API routing and management
• Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) – Relational SQL backend for persistent storage
• Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) – In-memory caching for fast lookups
• TypeScript – Language for both infrastructure and function code

🚀 Features

• Dynamically create and deploy AWS CDK stacks
• Shorten long URLs into TinyURLs via API
• Retrieve the original URL from a shortened link

🧪 Example Endpoints

• POST /shorten – Shorten long URL
• GET /{code} – Retrieve the original URL

🛠️ Deployment

To deploy the project:

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# build code
pnpm run build

# Bootstrap your environment (only once)
cdk bootstrap

# Deploy the stack
cdk deploy

# Destroy the stack
cdk destroy