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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 subnets in VPCs

In this section, we will learn about and understand AWS subnets, which are subparts of AWS VPCs. VPCs can be further divided into multiple subnets. These subnets can either be public or private, depending on the security needs of your architecture. We will look at the concept of subnets from the point of view of AWS Lambda functions.

We will perform the following steps:

  1. You can go to the Subnets menu via the VPC page itself. You need to click on the Subnets option under the Your VPCs option on the left:
  1. This will take you to the subnets console, where you will see some already existing subnets. These are the default subnets for each availability zone in your region:
  1. Now, to create a new subnet, you need to click on the blue Create Subnet button on the top-left side of the console. In the creation wizard, you will be asked to enter the following...