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.

Blog posts about this topic:

• The AWS Journey Part 1: Deploying Your First Docker Image
• The AWS Journey Part 2: Deploying a Docker Image with AWS CloudFormation
• The AWS Journey Part 3: Connecting a Spring Boot Application to an RDS Instance with CloudFormation
• The AWS Journey Part 4: Zero-Downtime Deployment with CloudFormation and ECS