From $49/Month to Zero: Building a Serverless SEO Prerender Pipeline

React Single-Page Applications face a critical SEO challenge: search engine crawlers and social media bots encounter empty HTML and miss fully rendered content, limiting search visibility and social sharing effectiveness. This technical article details how to solve this problem by building a self-hosted prerendering pipeline using AWS CloudFront Functions, Lambda, and Puppeteer—eliminating expensive commercial services ($49-$249/month) while leveraging infrastructure you already own. For development teams managing B2B sites, this approach unlocks both search engine discoverability and proper social media card rendering at zero ongoing cost.