French CMS SPIP Ported to Fully Serverless Architecture on AWS
A French developer has released spip-serverless, an open-source project that runs the veteran PHP-based CMS SPIP on a fully serverless AWS infrastructure. The project was born from a client request requiring SPIP as a mandatory backend while avoiding round-the-clock server costs. Key technical challenges included SPIP's reliance on local persistent storage and a continuously running database, neither of which is compatible with serverless by default. These were resolved by routing sessions to DynamoDB, storing media on S3, running PHP via the Bref Lambda runtime, and caching content through CloudFront. The project is publicly available on GitHub under the MIT license, with a live demo site already running at negligible hosting cost.
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