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Building Serverless Web Applications

By : Diego Zanon
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Building Serverless Web Applications

By: Diego Zanon

Overview of this book

This book will equip you with the knowledge needed to build your own serverless apps by showing you how to set up different services while making your application scalable, highly available, and efficient. We begin by giving you an idea of what it means to go serverless, exploring the pros and cons of the serverless model and its use cases. Next, you will be introduced to the AWS services that will be used throughout the book, how to estimate costs, and how to set up and use the Serverless Framework. From here, you will start to build an entire serverless project of an online store, beginning with a React SPA frontend hosted on AWS followed by a serverless backend with API Gateway and Lambda functions. You will also learn to access data from a SimpleDB database, secure the application with authentication and authorization, and implement serverless notifications for browsers using AWS IoT. This book will describe how to monitor the performance, efficiency, and errors of your apps and conclude by teaching you how to test and deploy your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 8. Securing the Serverless Application

Handling security is an extensive and complex topic. If you don't do it right, you may be hacked. Even if you do everything right, you may be hacked. So it's important you understand the common security mechanisms to avoid exposing your website to vulnerabilities, and also, always follow the recommended practices and methodologies that have been largely tested and proven to be robust.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Basic security practices and concepts
  • Learning how to use Amazon Cognito
  • Developing the signup and login pages of the serverless store
  • Handling authorization and authentication of users in the backend

By the end of this chapter, you will have acquired basic knowledge on how to handle security in AWS to build a serverless website.