InfrastructureMarch 4, 20265 min read

Deploy to AWS Through a Conversation: No Pipeline, No YAML

It checked what was already true before it built anything, then did the job in four minutes.

You need a production deploy on AWS: a web server, maybe a database behind it, the right security groups, everything wired up correctly. You know exactly what you want. Now go build it.

What happened when I tried it on my own site

My own website's repo was connected to Liberra. I typed one line: "I want this live. Do it." It read the repo, then came back with something I didn't expect... it told me the site was already live, on Netlify, and asked if I still wanted it deployed on AWS anyway.

That's the part I keep coming back to. It would have been easy to just build what I asked for, a second copy of a site that already existed, and call it done. Instead it checked what was actually true before it touched anything, and only then asked what I wanted to do.

I said yes, and asked for the cheapest way to do it. Four minutes later the site was live on AWS, served through CloudFront, the AWS content delivery network, the cheap, always on way to serve a site.

I told someone in my target audience about it. He said the same thing would take him an hour, setting up a pipeline by hand. I'm not an expert... but I've built an expert. That is what I'm proud of.

How it actually works

You describe what you want in plain English. If it's standing infrastructure, something you're going to keep running and operate long term, Liberra builds it with Terraform, an infrastructure as code tool. You don't need to know Terraform. You need to know what you want.

Before anything runs, Liberra writes the plan and shows you exactly what it's going to create. Nothing gets built until you approve it. Once you do, the build runs in the background and reports back when it's done.

What doesn't change, no matter what you're building

Every action it takes lands in your own CloudTrail, tied to your identity. Deletes are physically blocked, the same as everywhere else in Liberra. If something fails partway through, you can ask it to check what went wrong, and it will. It won't fix itself quietly, and it won't pretend nothing happened.

You still decide what gets built. Liberra checks what's real first, shows you the plan, and only moves when you say go.

Founder, Liberra AI