Does anyone use SST without api gateway and lambdas? This is probably the normal use case for general CDK. Setup whatever services, and then have my own local dev server (go, node, whatever) connect to those services. But this also means I have to deal with ensuring things work across a private VPC.

We had a thread about this, in the doc from SST there is docs about using VPN.

Thanks I’ll dig there.

Would it work if resources in the stage used for

sst start

are deployed into the public subnet?

That’s an interesting proposition. Product wise, that’s interesting but as long as the solutions are easy in user land, like a simple guide to switch all resources in the cdk code, it may not be worth building in.

Yeah I was thinking more of a guide, showing something like:

const cluster = new rds.DatabaseCluster(this, 'Database', {
  ...
  instanceProps: {
    vpcSubnets: {
      subnetType: scope.stage === "prod"
        ? ec2.SubnetType.PRIVATE
        : ec2.SubnetType.PUBLIC,
    },
  },
});