PyCon AU 2024

Django on AWS for chump change
2024-11-22 , Eureka 3

Some cheap and definitely not employer approved ways to run Django on AWS infrastructure on a budget


With the power of AWS and the Cloud Development Framework (CDK) we can spin up cheap infrastructure to host Django on. By leveraging cheap and free tier AWS services while also creating some very questionable resources and code we can scale a Django application down to a user base of 2 or less!

Luke is a senior software engineer at WSP. He's worked in the industry for 7 years and has spent more time than he would like to admit debugging Django and Python code. Luke also a long time ago was an Australian representative gymnast, competing at the Commonwealth Games and World Championships.