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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

Chapter 11, Securing Serverless Applications with Zappa


  1. API Gateway authorizer is a mechanism to secure API resources. API Gateway authorizer generates an API Key that can bind with any resource. Once you bind the API resources then API Gateway will restrict any HTTP request with the API key in the x-api-key header.
  2. AWS Lambda has a feature of Dead Letter Queue (DLQ), which enables developers to monitor the unknown failure. It can be configured against the AWS SNS or SQS as a DLQ in the AWS Lambda function. AWS Lambda will publish the failure event over the configured AWS SNS or SQS ARN.
  3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud creates an isolated virtual network layer where you can configure all your AWS resources. AWS VPC will restrict the access from a outside the VPC network and enables the security layer.