In this chapter, we are going to cover more AWS features in order to enhance the security layer using Zappa. Before diving into this chapter, make sure that you have fulfilled the following prerequisites:
- Ubuntu 16.04/macOS/Windows
- Python 3.6
- Pipenv tool
- AWS account
- Gunicorn
- Zappa
- Other Python packages
Once you have enabled the development environment, we can move on and develop a simple Falcon-based API for generating a random quote on request. In further sections, we will be securing this API with different mechanisms and approaches using Zappa.