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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "92888ba5573ff080736b3648696b70cafad7d250551175acbaa4e0385b3e1460"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-ident"
 version = "1.0.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6ceab39d59e4c9499d4e5a8ee0e2735b891bb7308ac83dfb4e80cad195c9f6f3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-normalization"
+version = "0.1.22"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c5713f0fc4b5db668a2ac63cdb7bb4469d8c9fed047b1d0292cc7b0ce2ba921"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
 version = "0.1.10"
@@ -1978,6 +2479,17 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a156c684c91ea7d62626509bce3cb4e1d9ed5c4d978f7b4352658f96a4c26b4a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "url"
+version = "2.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0d68c799ae75762b8c3fe375feb6600ef5602c883c5d21eb51c09f22b83c4643"
+dependencies = [
+ "form_urlencoded",
+ "idna",
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "urlencoding"
 version = "2.1.2"
@@ -2326,3 +2838,33 @@
 version = "1.5.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c394b5bd0c6f669e7275d9c20aa90ae064cb22e75a1cad54e1b34088034b149f"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd"
+version = "0.12.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1a27595e173641171fc74a1232b7b1c7a7cb6e18222c11e9dfb9888fa424c53c"
+dependencies = [
+ "zstd-safe",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-safe"
+version = "6.0.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ee98ffd0b48ee95e6c5168188e44a54550b1564d9d530ee21d5f0eaed1069581"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "zstd-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-sys"
+version = "2.0.8+zstd.1.5.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5556e6ee25d32df2586c098bbfa278803692a20d0ab9565e049480d52707ec8c"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+]
diff --git a/services/backup/Cargo.toml b/services/backup/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/backup/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/backup/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 aws-types = "0.55"
 chrono = "0.4"
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive", "env"] }
-comm-services-lib = { path = "../comm-services-lib" }
+comm-services-lib = { path = "../comm-services-lib", features = ["http"] }
 once_cell = "1.17"
 rand = "0.8.5"
 tokio = { version = "1.24", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 tracing-futures = { version = "0.2", features = ["futures-03"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.2", features = ["v4"] }
+actix-web = "4.3"
+tracing-actix-web = "0.7.3"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = "0.8"
diff --git a/services/backup/src/config.rs b/services/backup/src/config.rs
--- a/services/backup/src/config.rs
+++ b/services/backup/src/config.rs
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use tracing::info;
 
-use crate::constants::DEFAULT_BLOB_SERVICE_URL;
+use crate::constants::{DEFAULT_BLOB_SERVICE_URL, DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT};
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
 #[command(version, about, long_about = None)]
 pub struct AppConfig {
+  /// HTTP server listening port
+  #[arg(long, default_value_t = DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT)]
+  pub http_port: u16,
   /// AWS Localstack service URL
   #[arg(env = "LOCALSTACK_ENDPOINT")]
   #[arg(long)]
diff --git a/services/backup/src/constants.rs b/services/backup/src/constants.rs
--- a/services/backup/src/constants.rs
+++ b/services/backup/src/constants.rs
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 pub const GRPC_METADATA_SIZE_PER_MESSAGE: usize = 5;
 
 // Configuration defaults
+pub const DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT: u16 = 51002;
 pub const DEFAULT_BLOB_SERVICE_URL: &str = "http://localhost:50053";
 
 // Environment variable names
diff --git a/services/backup/src/database.rs b/services/backup/src/database.rs
--- a/services/backup/src/database.rs
+++ b/services/backup/src/database.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 };
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
 use comm_services_lib::database::{DBItemError, Error, TryFromAttribute};
-use std::{collections::HashMap, sync::Arc};
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 use tracing::error;
 
 use crate::constants::{
@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct DatabaseClient {
-  client: Arc<aws_sdk_dynamodb::Client>,
+  client: aws_sdk_dynamodb::Client,
 }
 
 impl DatabaseClient {
   pub fn new(aws_config: &aws_types::SdkConfig) -> Self {
     DatabaseClient {
-      client: Arc::new(aws_sdk_dynamodb::Client::new(aws_config)),
+      client: aws_sdk_dynamodb::Client::new(aws_config),
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/services/backup/src/http/mod.rs b/services/backup/src/http/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/backup/src/http/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+use actix_web::{web, App, HttpServer};
+use anyhow::Result;
+use tracing::info;
+
+use crate::{database::DatabaseClient, CONFIG};
+
+pub async fn run_http_server(db_client: DatabaseClient) -> Result<()> {
+  info!(
+    "Starting HTTP server listening at port {}",
+    CONFIG.http_port
+  );
+
+  let db = web::Data::new(db_client);
+
+  HttpServer::new(move || {
+    App::new()
+      .wrap(tracing_actix_web::TracingLogger::default())
+      .wrap(comm_services_lib::http::cors_config(
+        CONFIG.localstack_endpoint.is_some(),
+      ))
+      .app_data(db.clone())
+      .service(
+        web::resource("/hello").route(web::get().to(|| async { "world" })),
+      )
+  })
+  .bind(("0.0.0.0", CONFIG.http_port))?
+  .run()
+  .await?;
+
+  Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/services/backup/src/main.rs b/services/backup/src/main.rs
--- a/services/backup/src/main.rs
+++ b/services/backup/src/main.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 pub mod config;
 pub mod constants;
 pub mod database;
+pub mod http;
 pub mod utils;
 
 // re-export this to be available as crate::CONFIG
@@ -27,7 +28,9 @@
   configure_logging()?;
 
   let aws_config = config::load_aws_config().await;
-  let _db = database::DatabaseClient::new(&aws_config);
+  let db_client = database::DatabaseClient::new(&aws_config);
+
+  http::run_http_server(db_client).await?;
 
   Ok(())
 }