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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By : Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
Book Image

Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By: Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular these days, not just because they save developers the trouble of managing the servers, but also because they provide several other benefits such as cutting heavy costs and improving the overall performance of the application. This book will help you build serverless applications in a quick and efficient way. We begin with an introduction to AWS and the API gateway, the environment for serverless development, and Zappa. We then look at building, testing, and deploying apps in AWS with three different frameworks--Flask, Django, and Pyramid. Setting up a custom domain along with SSL certificates and configuring them with Zappa is also covered. A few advanced Zappa settings are also covered along with securing Zappa with AWS VPC. By the end of the book you will have mastered using three frameworks to build robust and cost-efficient serverless apps in Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring the Amazon CloudFront CDN


Amazon CloudFront is one of the more popular services. It provides the feature to serve static files through the CDN network, which helps static contents to be distributed in a very efficient way with lower latency to enhance the performance.

To configure Amazon CloudFront, we create a CloudFront distribution through the AWS user console.

Creating CloudFront distributions

Assuming you have a valid AWS account, you can log in the AWS web console using your credentials. Select the CloudFront service from the services dropdown and click on the Create Distribution button, as shown in the following screenshot:

 

While creating a distribution, Amazon provides two different methods, such as web and RTMP. The web method is used for static content that needs to be served through the CDN network and when all static files are residing in an Amazon S3 bucket. The RTMP method is used to distribute the streaming media files, which allow a user to play the file before it...