A simple Spring Boot application you can use to test deployments to AWS (or any other cloud provider, for that matter).

This application is also available as a Docker image on Docker Hub: [https://hub.docker.com/r/reflectoring/aws-hello-world](https://hub.docker.com/r/reflectoring/aws-hello-world).

Blog posts about this topic:

* [The AWS Journey Part 1: Deploying Your First Docker Image](https://reflectoring.io/aws-deploy-docker-image-via-web-console/)

* [The AWS Journey Part 2: Deploying a Docker Image with AWS CloudFormation](https://reflectoring.io/aws-cloudformation-deploy-docker-image/)

* [The AWS Journey Part 3: Connecting a Spring Boot Application to an RDS Instance with CloudFormation](https://reflectoring.io/aws-cloudformation-rds/)

* [The AWS Journey Part 4: Zero-Downtime Deployment with CloudFormation and ECS](https://reflectoring.io/aws-cloudformation-ecs-deployment/)