What is Thunder?

Thunder is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to simplify and accelerate the deployment process for your web applications. Specifically engineered for modern developers, Thunder seamlessly integrates with AWS and GitHub, making it an indispensable tool for software development and deployment.

The way we see it, purpose of a PaaS:

1. Make it easy to whip up a new project
2. Allow adding new features easily, as the project grows
3. Help keep costs as low as possible

Thunder aims to provide the developer experience of a modern PaaS for your own AWS account.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

• A Github account
• An AWS account (root or IAM access)