Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN. I noticed quite a number of errors and realised these would be dead links out in the wild. I wondered if I might figure a way of replicating the path structure I had with WordPress over here on Hugo.

Initially I looked at the behaviours on the CloudFront distribution and figured quite quickly that it needed to be a Lambda@Edge. So I started writing something that would perform the redirects for me. This seemed a lot of work for what would be relatively straight forward in something like NGinx, but hey ho.. I then realised that there would be Lambda invocation costs associated with doing this, and not being one willing to spend more than I have to with AWS I tried to look elsewhere.