Building Type-Safe Serverless Applications with Prisma, Lambda, and Private RDS
Running Prisma ORM in AWS Lambda with RDS in a private VPC is a good pattern for building type-safe serverless applications. However, documentation on this setup is sparse, and developers typically encounter two critical challenges that aren’t immediately obvious: correctly bundling Prisma’s binary dependencies for Lambda’s environment and automating database migrations through CDK without external CI/CD orchestration.