Our team, a bunch of experienced software engineers without prior contact to cloud deployments, wanted to deploy our OCPP-compliant EV Charging Station Simulator (EVCSS) publicly, so that early users and other stakeholders can easily test it.

Sounds simple enough, right? That’s what we thought. And optimistically pulled the “Cloud Deployment” Issue in our current Sprint because we had a couple of additional days to work on it.

Let’s make it a size M, just to be sure…

On our first introduction to AWS, we were greeted with an admin panel, a considerable selection of services and found ourselves right in the middle of choice paralysis. What do we actually need? It was difficult to find the best or even any way to deploy our simple client server application. So we enlisted a specialist, someone with prior experience with AWS and cloud deployments, who may shed some light on the path we couldn’t see in the haze of three-letter acronyms and similar-sounding services (is that what S3 stands for?).