dropthejase rebuilds Mike to run end-to-end on AWS

A full re-platforming of the fork onto Amazon's serverless stack, with a parity checklist that now reads "all features migrated."

infrastructure

The work in this thread is documentation, but it maps a real rebuild. dropthejase has lifted Mike off its original setup and onto Amazon Web Services, running the app as serverless functions that spin up on demand instead of on always-on servers. The AI work runs on Bedrock, Amazon's hosted version of Anthropic's Claude models, and sign-in moved to Cognito, Amazon's identity service - a switch the team made partway through, replacing the original login plumbing.

What makes it worth a look is the bookkeeping. A route-by-route parity tracker checks every feature in the original - chat, documents, projects, tabular review, workflows, account management - against the AWS build, marking what works, what's degraded, and what was deliberately dropped, with reasons. By the end it declares nothing left pending.

So what Anyone weighing whether to run their own instance of Mike on AWS now has a tested blueprint and an honest feature-parity scorecard to start from.

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Commits in this thread

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

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`74bee403`	docs: rewrite README for AWS migration architecture and setup	Jason Lee	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
`23f7b852`	docs: add ARCHITECTURE.md covering full AWS system design and chat session flow	Jason Lee	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
`396019f8`	docs: redraw architecture diagram to show Cognito User Pool, Pre-Token Gen Lambda, Identity Pool	Jason Lee	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
`ff1d1852`	docs: add original functionality tracker with AWS migration status	Jason Lee	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
`23be0c2e`	docs: update migration notes with Aurora and credits tracking plans	Jason Lee	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
`58369083`	Restructure docs: ARCHITECTURE.md to root, ignore docs/	Jason Lee	2026-05-09	↗ GitHub
commit body - Move ARCHITECTURE.md from docs/ to repo root (public-facing) - Remove docs/ORIGINAL-FUNCTIONALITY.md (now gitignored with docs/) - Remove aws-migration-notes.md from root (moved to docs/, now gitignored) - .gitignore: ignore entire docs/ dir (plans, specs, migration notes are internal) - README: clarify Finch vm init/start/stop lifecycle
`9e7635ab`	docs: add FEATURE-PARITY.md mapping original routes to AWS migration	Jason Lee	2026-05-11	↗ GitHub
`4e062e54`	docs: add To Test section and Intentionally Skipped to FEATURE-PARITY.md	Jason Lee	2026-05-12	↗ GitHub
`cf222093`	chore: added architecture	Jason Lee	2026-05-14	↗ GitHub
`2914f9d2`	chore: readme and architecture	Jason Lee	2026-05-14	↗ GitHub
`6edd164d`	chore: README udpates	Jason Lee	2026-05-14	↗ GitHub
`12cafc1b`	docs(architecture): update for MCP, Skills, AgentStack, S3 buckets, dead table removal	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
`8161f5c0`	feat: AWS migration - Louis on AWS (Bedrock AgentCore, Aurora, S3, CDK)	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
`138e1ed5`	docs: update README/ARCHITECTURE, rename .env.local to .env	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
commit body - Rename frontend/.env.local.example → .env.example; add .env to .gitignore - README: fix env setup instructions, expand Cleanup section (Skills/Admin buckets, Secrets Manager MCP secrets, AgentStack in destroy command) - README: expand Disclaimer (personal capacity, legal advice, production readiness) - ARCHITECTURE.md: fix Bedrock model IDs for Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6; add model cards link
`599dc711`	docs: update Known Gaps - add drag-and-drop attachment rendering limitation, clarify sharing gap	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
`21c58f55`	docs: add Python Strands agents migration note to Ideas for Extension	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
`8fa196ae`	chore: architecture diagram updates	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
`ec4621ff`	docs: fix shared_with schema description in ARCHITECTURE.md	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
`6b570315`	chore: README updates + demo video	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
`8c73bf47`	docs: add demo video and timestamps to README	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
`41780a2e`	chore: Add video to README	Jason	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
`b0e404ae`	chore: remove demo.mp4 from repo (hosted on GitHub CDN)	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
`205f4e0c`	docs(readme): add AWS region to configuration notes	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub

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