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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Getting started with AWS Lambda


In this section, we will look at how easy and effortless it is to execute a simple Lambda function using both the AWS Management Console, as well as the AWS CLI, and in the process learn a few necessary components and configurable items along the way.

Using the AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console is by far the simplest way to getting started with AWS Lambda. Now I'm going to assume that you already have a valid AWS account and some basic hands-on knowledge with the core AWS services and products such as EC2, IAM, S3, and so on. If not, then you can always create a new account with AWS and leverage the awesome one-year Free Tier scheme as well.

Note

To read more about Free Tier usage, check out this link here https://aws.amazon.com/free/.

The following are the steps to create a new Lambda function:

  1. Log in to your AWS Management Console using your IAM credentials and from the AWS Services filter, type in Lambda to get started. You should see the AWS...