Create and Deploy Simple URL Shortener with AWS CDK and DocumentDB Create and Deploy Simple URL Shortener with AWS CDK and DocumentDB In this tutorial we will walk you through creating and deploying a simple URL shortener application using AWS CDK, DocumentDB, Lambda and… Create a Simple URL Shortener with AWS CDK and DocumentDB In this tutorial, we will walk you through creating and deploying a simple URL shortener application using AWS CDK , DocumentDB , Lambda and API Gateway . DocumentDB is a document database which is fully compatible with MongoDB 3.6 API . DocumentDB takes lots of inspiration from other AWS Database Services, in which storage and compute layers are separated. This allows fairly simple scalability and high-performance throughput. CDK is a new way to manage AWS resources using common programming languages. Let’s get started. In case you haven’t installed AWS CDK yet, here is how to do it. npm install -g aws-cdk Let’s build the application logic first This ...