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Mastering AWS Lambda

By : Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
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Mastering AWS Lambda

By: Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

AWS is recognized as one of the biggest market leaders for cloud computing and why not? It has evolved a lot since the time it started out by providing just basic services such as EC2 and S3 and today; they go all the way from IoT to Machine Learning, Image recognition, Chatbot Frameworks, and much more! One of those recent services that is also gaining a lot of traction is AWS Lambda! Although seemingly simple and easy to use, Lambda is a highly effective and scalable compute service that provides developers with a powerful platform to design and develop Serverless event-driven systems and applications. The book begins with a high-level introduction into the world of Serverless computing and its advantages and use cases, followed by a deep dive into AWS Lambda! You’ll learn what services AWS Lambda provides to developers; how to design, write, and test Lambda functions; as well as monitor and troubleshoot them. The book is designed and accompanied with a vast variety of real-world examples, use cases, and code samples that will enable you to get started on your Serverless applications quickly. By the end of the book, you will have gained all the skills required to work with AWS Lambda services!
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Recommendations and best practices

Here are a few key recommendations and best practices that you ought to keep in mind when working with integration services as well as with Webhooks:

  • Secure your Webhooks: As Webhooks deliver data to publicly available URLs in your application, there are chances that a spoofer may provide your URL with false data. The easiest way to safeguard against such events is by forcing TLS connections. You can even secure the Webhook further by adding tokens to the URL that act as unique identification marker and then rotate these tokens on a regular basis.
  • Securing your API: Make sure you always encrypt secret keys and API keys using KMS service and the encryption helpers provided by Lambda. The decrypting logic can be written in your Lambda function itself and invoked using the AWS SDKs.