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Serverless Programming Cookbook

By : Heartin Kanikathottu
Book Image

Serverless Programming Cookbook

By: Heartin Kanikathottu

Overview of this book

Managing physical servers will be a thing of the past once you’re able to harness the power of serverless computing. If you’re already prepped with the basics of serverless computing, Serverless Programming Cookbook will help you take the next step ahead. This recipe-based guide provides solutions to problems you might face while building serverless applications. You'll begin by setting up Amazon Web Services (AWS), the primary cloud provider used for most recipes. The next set of recipes will cover various components to build a Serverless application including REST APIs, database, user management, authentication, web hosting, domain registration, DNS management, CDN, messaging, notifications and monitoring. The book also introduces you to the latest technology trends such as Data Streams, Machine Learning and NLP. You will also see patterns and practices for using various services in a real world application. Finally, to broaden your understanding of Serverless computing, you'll also cover getting started guides for other cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM cloud. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired the skills you need to build serverless applications efficiently using various cloud offerings.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using HTTPS with a CloudFront domain

In the Using custom domain names with CloudFront recipe, when we ran the URL in a browser using HTTPS, it showed a Not Secure message. In this recipe, we will associate an SSL certificate with our CloudFormation distribution so that we can access the URL through HTTPS. We will also configure automatically the redirection of any calls with an http prefix to a corresponding URL with an https prefix.

Getting ready

We can refer to Creating SSL certificates with ACM recipe in Chapter 9, Serverless Architecture Patterns and Practices, to obtain an ACM SSL certificate. We can also refer to the previous recipes in this chapter for details on the steps related to S3, CloudFront, and Route 53 that...