Getting started

Deadlift is distributed as a CloudFormation template through AWS Marketplace. You subscribe through the AWS Marketplace listing, choose a region, and the template deploys the dashboard, Lambdas, DynamoDB tables, and IAM roles into your own AWS account.

This page describes the install path you’ll follow once the listing is live.

Prerequisites

You need:

An AWS account where you have permission to create CloudFormation stacks
A region of your choice (Deadlift supports any region SQS, Lambda, AppSync, and Cognito are available in)
An email address for CloudWatch alarm notifications (optional but recommended)

Subscribing

Visit the Deadlift listing on AWS Marketplace (link will be added once approved).
Click Subscribe and accept the EULA.
Choose your tier (Free, Solo, Team, or Enterprise).
Click Continue to Configuration.

Deploying the stack

The Marketplace flow hands you off to CloudFormation with the Deadlift template preloaded. You’ll see the following parameters:

Parameter	Description	Default
Subscription tier	Set automatically by Marketplace based on your subscription. Don’t change this unless instructed.	Set by Marketplace
Notification email address	Email to receive DLQ threshold alerts. Leave blank to disable email notifications.	empty
DLQ message count alert threshold	Alert when any monitored DLQ exceeds this message count.	`10`

Click Create stack and wait 5-10 minutes. CloudFormation will create:

A CloudFront distribution for the dashboard UI
A Cognito user pool for authentication
An AppSync GraphQL API
13 Lambda functions and an AppSync JS resolver
5 DynamoDB tables for sessions, audit log, counters, auto-replay rules, and settings
An SNS topic for alerts (only subscribes the email address if you provided one)

When the stack finishes, the Outputs tab shows a DashboardUrl value - that’s your CloudFront URL.

Open the URL.
The Cognito hosted UI will prompt you to set a password (the AWS Marketplace flow creates an initial admin user with your AWS account email).
After login you’ll see your DLQs listed in the dashboard.

That’s it. No agents to install, no servers to provision, no data plane outside your AWS account.

Updating

When a new version of Deadlift is released, the dashboard will show an “update available” banner. Updating is a single CloudFormation stack update - the marketplace listing always points at the latest stable template.

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