I would love to learn more about the lambda/apigateway part, I too need two backend operations on an otherwise static site, mailchimp signup and contact form submission. I am new to AWS, but I am pretty sure lambda could handle this, do you have suggestions on where I could learn more about setting something like this up?

contact form submission is the main use case for us. API gateway doesn't support form data so it will have to be an ajax post. Just found this blog which is the same use case I have https://codehabitude.com/2016/04/05/forms-to-emails-using-aw...