dropthejase lays the AWS foundations for Louis

The Louis fork is being lifted onto AWS, and the scaffolding for that move just landed.

infrastructure

dropthejase has stood up the backbone of an AWS deployment for Louis, splitting the cloud setup into clean, separately-deployable pieces: one for document and frontend storage (fronted by Amazon's CDN), one for the API and its serverless functions, and one for a document-conversion service running LibreOffice in the background. Permissions for Bedrock - AWS's hosted-model service - are wired in so the app can actually talk to an LLM once deployed.

A few decisions are flagged as proof-of-concept only: buckets are set to wipe themselves on teardown, and an early stub for handling logins is already destined for replacement by a proper identity service. The split itself, though, looks like the durable shape: storage, API, conversion, and later auth and database, each isolated so a problem in one doesn't take down the others.

So what Legal-tech leaders weighing whether to self-host Louis on AWS now have a working blueprint to study before committing engineering time.

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Commits in this thread

11 commits from dropthejase/louis, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`1d051296`	feat(infra): scaffold CDK app with stage helper	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`2883c4d4`	feat(infra): add StorageStack with docs bucket, frontend bucket, CloudFront	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`8002cb79`	feat(infra): add ApiStack with REST API Gateway, Lambda, Secrets Manager	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`39ec1eaf`	feat(infra): add ConversionStack with LibreOffice Lambda container placeholder	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
commit body Adds ConversionStack (DockerImageFunction + S3 event notifications for .docx/.doc). Uses bucket ARN/name strings instead of the bucket construct to break the cross-stack dependency cycle that S3 event notifications would otherwise cause. Also fixes Lambda authorizer import to use fromFunctionAttributes with sameEnvironment=true.
`c948bc3e`	chore(infra): add env example for downstream plans	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`69bd0507`	feat(infra): wire Supabase secret into ConversionStack Lambda	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`d62d2a00`	feat(infra): ApiStack - wire Lambda to backend Dockerfile.lambda, add Bedrock IAM	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`7f6592d8`	fix(infra): AuthStack - use NodejsFunction+esbuild for authorizer (no pre-build needed)	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`01909358`	Merge feature/infra-cdk: CDK stacks (Storage, Auth, Api, Conversion)	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`a24c896b`	Merge feature/conversion: LibreOffice Lambda container	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`08884d4e`	fix(infra): set RemovalPolicy.DESTROY on all buckets for clean POC teardown	Jason Lee	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub

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