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[Feature] Serverless setup #1819
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Originally created by @alshdavid on GitHub (Feb 4, 2025).
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Hi all,
I'd love it if Actual had a serverless hosting option. The benefits of this would be:
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
Provide a terraform or cloudformation script to enable deploying Actual as a serverless service. Notable options include:
In addition, https can be automatically provided by
Managed/external authentication could be provided by
I have had success in the past writing an adapter for Nodejs's
expressandnode:httpthat enables the use of the same http handler syntax to be used for a hosted server and serverless configuration.Teaching and learning
I don't know if AWS has the ability to deploy infrastructure to AWS on behalf of an AWS account (like having a button on the Actual homepage that says "Click here to deploy to AWS").
However a few screenshots showing AWS console sign in, navigating to cloudformation, pasting in the cloudformation script and hitting deploy should suffice as it's straightforward enough.
e.g.
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2025):
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@Landaman commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2025):
I put some time in and was able to make this work using SST (basically Pulumi). The hard part about making this cost effective is figuring out networking with IPv6 only, since if you pay for IPv4 networking this doesn't make any sense cost wise vs using something like Fly. (Normally lambdas get free internet networking, but we need a EFS which means a VPC, and VPCs don't automatically get external networking from Lambda).
It works though!
Stack is:
Feel free to check out my fork if you're curious. Some small refactoring to the sync server to let ESBuild work and to let us package for lambda, but pretty much everything lives in sst.config.ts.
Basically all you pay for in this setup is the S3 costs to store the Lambda source and static files. Should be a couple cents a month, but no promises since it's AWS and can be variable. Especially if I made a mistake somewhere (or you get hit with a botnet or something). I'm not convinced this is a good one-click option due to that, but it's cool if you're comfortable with it!
@alshdavid commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2025):
You're kidding. That's amazing, nice work! Checking it out
@alshdavid commented on GitHub (Dec 22, 2025):
Turso has a free serverless SQLite solution. It's outside of AWS but still a great product
@Landaman commented on GitHub (Dec 23, 2025):
Glad someone will get some use out of :)
Turso and D1 are both great options, but I think it'll be more work to get them working. I didn't dig into the sync-server internals very much, but I know there are multiple sqlite files, potentially some other types of files. Also the encryption would be tricky. EFS supports the use case pretty well, it's just the edges of VPC that are annoying :(