{"slug": "your-vibe-coded-app-is-live-now-what", "title": "Your vibe-coded app is live. Now what?", "summary": "Developers who use AI tools to rapidly build applications often end up with a live URL but lack true ownership of their code. Without the ability to move, debug, or explain the stack, the application remains a hosted prototype rather than a deployable product. To achieve full control, developers must integrate seven core AWS services, including S3 for hosting, Lambda for backend logic, and Cognito for authentication.", "body_md": "# Your vibe-coded app is live. Now what?\n\nGetting to a live URL is the easy part now.\n\nThe harder question is whether you actually own what you built.\n\nCan you move it?\n\nCan you debug it?\n\nCan you explain the stack to a client?\n\nCan you protect your API keys?\n\nIf the answer is **\"No 🙂↔️\"** or **\"I'm not sure 🥹\"** → your AI app is still a hosted prototype.\n\nHere are the **7 things** you need to deploy your vibe-coded app and own the whole stack on AWS:\n\n### 1. Frontend host → S3 + CloudFront\n\nYour frontend needs to live somewhere.\n\n**S3** stores your files.\n\n**CloudFront** serves them fast, globally and with caching built in.\n\nThis is what **hosting a static site on AWS** means in practice:\n\n### 2. Custom domain → Route 53\n\nAlready have a custom domain? Great.\n\n**Route 53** is AWS's DNS service.\n\nIt's how you point `yourapp.com`\n\nat your CloudFront distribution instead of some auto-generated URL:\n\n### 3. Backend API → API Gateway + Lambda\n\n**API Gateway** is the front door to your backend.\n\n**Lambda** is the function that runs your backend code when a request comes in.\n\nTogether they give you a serverless API with no server to manage:\n\n### 4. Deployment framework → AWS SAM\n\n**AWS SAM** is how you deploy your backend in code.\n\nYou describe your Lambda functions and API Gateway in a template and SAM handles the deployment:\n\n### 5. Auth → Cognito\n\n**Cognito** manages your users:\n\n- sign up\n- sign in\n- tokens\n- password resets\n\nYour **API Gateway** can use Cognito to protect your backend routes automatically:\n\n### 6. Login UI → Amplify UI\n\n**Amplify** has a pre-built login and signup UI that wire directly into Cognito.\n\nYou drop `<Authenticator />`\n\nin your code, configure your Cognito user pool and the login flow works:\n\n### 7. Database → DynamoDB\n\n**DynamoDB** is AWS's serverless NoSQL database.\n\nAnd yes, NoSQL is a hill I'll die on 🗣️\n\nNo connection strings.\n\nNo idle charges.\n\nScales automatically and integrates cleanly with Lambda:\n\n### Full overview\n\nClick any AWS resource in the diagram below to highlight how it connects to the rest of the stack:\n\n### Summary\n\n**Seven AWS services.** That's the whole map.\n\nYou don't need to understand all of them on day one.\n\nBut you do need to know they exist and what each does.\n\nMy upcoming course **Ship It** walks you from vibe-coded AI agent to deployed AWS app, step by step: frontend, backend, auth, API, database and deployment.\n\n**Join the waitlist:**\n\nIf you'd rather walk through your specific app: what it does, where it lives, what it needs next [Grab a free 30-min call ↗](https://calendly.com/braine-ai/free-30-minute-ai-brainstorming-session)\n\nI'll help you map it to the serverless AWS stack.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-vibe-coded-app-is-live-now-what", "canonical_source": "https://norahsakal.com/blog/vibe-coded-app-now-what/", "published_at": "2026-05-27 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-30 19:02:55.926383+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "mlops"], "entities": ["AWS", "S3", "CloudFront", "Route 53", "API Gateway", "Lambda", "AWS SAM", "Cognito"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-vibe-coded-app-is-live-now-what", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-vibe-coded-app-is-live-now-what.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-vibe-coded-app-is-live-now-what.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-vibe-coded-app-is-live-now-what.jsonld"}}