# Setting Up Your Own Image Transform Service

DevFeed: [Setting Up Your Own Image Transform Service](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/setting-up-your-own-image-transform-service-31297.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nystudio107.com/blog/setting-up-your-own-image-transform-service>)

Author: andrew@nystudio107.com (Andrew Welch)

Published: 2019-07-05T15:33:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [nystudio107 | Articles on modern web development.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nystudio107-articles-on-modern-web-development.md>)

Topics: [AWS Lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-lambda.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [modern web development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modern-web-development.md>), [Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/node-js.md>)

Tags: [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [cloudfront](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudfront.md>), [cloudinary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudinary.md>), [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [create](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/create.md>), [handler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/handler.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/images.md>), [insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/insights.md>), [lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lambda.md>), [leveraging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leveraging.md>), [optimized-transformed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimized-transformed.md>), [pennies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pennies.md>), [power](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/power.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use AWS Lambda and the AWS Serverless Image Handler, fronted by CloudFront, to offload processor-intensive image transformations from a website server. It presents the approach as an inexpensive option for creating optimized images and discusses its use with server-rendered and JAMstack sites.

## Source excerpt

Create optimized/transformed images for pennies by leveraging the power of AWS Lambda to create your own Serverless Image Handler