AWS Email Forwarding Is Not That Hard (If You Let a Robot Do It)
2026-02-11 · 6 min read
My friend Tim said email forwarding in AWS was "batshit complex."
He was right. Route 53, SES, S3, Lambda, IAM — five services just to
forward an email. So I asked Claude to do it. 3 minutes later it was live.
Here's the whole architecture, explained.
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