shortj

This would have been awesome to have back when I was heavy in to the UI test automation game. Our best option at that point was a spot instance EC2 fleet and analyzing commits to determine which tests would be the most valuable to run. It's awesome being able to easily run hundreds or thousands of tests in parallel, completely segmented, and pay only on demand. A fantastic use of AWS Lambda! It suddenly becomes reasonable to do full integration tests on every merge request, or even commit, and get feedback to the developer in seconds.

For a layer of security, when using the client you could do IAM role assumption in your local machine. You have your static creds and an MFA device, then use those to export temporary credentials to actually run the bless client. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_Assum...

Some tools to make the process easier: https://github.com/remind101/assume-role https://github.com/trek10inc/awsume

Thanks so much! Grammar is not my strong suit.

Someone explain what I am missing... I was able to run a simple wget, and I had 100% full functionality of an app (utilizing their API Key, and App ID and all) and run it on my local machine. Data flow is seamless between the local and hosted apps. So while I don't have to worry about a backend, neither does anyone who wants to "borrow" my app. There isn't really any form of app authentication built in that I could find, the REST API master key is the closest thing.