Building a Zero-Cost SEO Prerender Pipeline for...

How I built a self-hosted prerender cache using CloudFront Functions, Lambda, Puppeteer, and S3 — replacing a $49/month service with existing AWS infrastructure. Inspiration This blog was inspired by Avinash Dalvi's excellent post on replacing prerender.io with a serverless renderer on AWS. His approach uses Lambda@Edge + API Gateway + a container-based Puppeteer Lambda. I had the same core idea and adapted it to my stack — a React SPA on CloudFront with CDK — making different architectural trad