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Building Serverless Applications with Python

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Building Serverless Applications with Python

Overview of this book

Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without having to manage the infrastructure. Many companies have adopted this architecture to save cost and improve scalability. This book will help you design serverless architectures for your applications with AWS and Python. The book is divided into three modules. The first module explains the fundamentals of serverless architecture and how AWS lambda functions work. In the next module, you will learn to build, release, and deploy your application to production. You will also learn to log and test your application. In the third module, we will take you through advanced topics such as building a serverless API for your application. You will also learn to troubleshoot and monitor your app and master AWS lambda programming concepts with API references. Moving on, you will also learn how to scale up serverless applications and handle distributed serverless systems in production. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge required to build scalable and cost-efficient Python applications with a serverless framework.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Understanding security in SAM

So far, we have learned how to write, build, package, and deploy Lambda functions using the SAM. We will now understand how security works inside them:

  1. You can scroll to the bottom of the Lambda console to see the network and security settings, where the VPC and the subnet details are mentioned:
  1. Now, we will add in the network settings, which include the security groups and the subnet IDs:
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: A starter AWS Lambda function.
Resources:
helloworldpython3:
Type: 'AWS::Serverless::Function'
Properties:
Handler: lambda_function.lambda_handler
Runtime: python3.6
CodeUri: .
Description: A starter AWS Lambda function.
MemorySize: 128
Timeout: 3
...