Aws Blog Posts
This article doesn't expect you to have any in-depth familiarity with AWS or IFTTT. However, it is required that you have accounts for both, and recommended that you've at least played around with both of them a little bit. The free tiers of both of these services is all that's required to get your personal API running, so this doesn't cost a single cent.
I've worked in the past on a few projects that use Amazon's S3 service to store images and files from Laravel applications. Even though the functionality is pretty much built into the framework, the process of getting started can be a little jarring, especially to those who don't have a whole lot of experience with the AWS suite.
There's already a few HTML to PDF APIs that are on the market today. They do their job well, and most have pretty detailed documentation that makes it easy to get started. However, my biggest issue was the billing, and I needed to scratch my own itch.