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Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers

By : Serkan Sakinmaz
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Book Image

Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers

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By: Serkan Sakinmaz

Overview of this book

AWS provides a vast variety of services for implementing Python applications, which can pose a challenge for those without an AWS background. This book addresses one of the more predominant problems of choosing the right service and stepping into the implementation of exciting Python apps using AWS. The book begins by showing you how to install Python and create an AWS account, before helping you explore AWS Lambda, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, and S3 for Python programming. You'll then gain hands-on experience in using these services to build the Python application. As you advance, you'll discover how to debug Python apps using PyCharm, and then start deploying the Python applications on Elastic Beanstalk. You’ll also learn how to monitor Python applications using the CloudWatch service, along with creating and publishing APIs on AWS to access the Python application. The concluding chapters will help you get to grips with storing unstructured and semi-structured data using NoSQL and DynamoDB, as well as advance your knowledge using the Glue serverless data integration service in AWS. By the end of this Python book, you’ll be able to take your application development skills up a notch with AWS services and advance in your career.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Python Installation and the Cloud
4
Part 2: A Deep Dive into AWS with Python
9
Part 3: Useful AWS Services to Implement Python

CloudWatch Log Insights

In this topic, we will take a look at Log Insights. If you have massive lines of logs, it is not easy to search and find the respective log that you are searching for. For this use case, Log Insights comes into play. CloudWatch Log Insights allows you to search logs with the filtering feature. Let’s see how Log Insights helps us to search logs:

  1. Click Log Insights under the Logs dropdown in the left pane:

Figure 7.12 – Log Insights

  1. Select the log that you want to investigate. In the previous example, we ran the TestLogs Lambda function, and I am also selecting that one here:

Figure 7.13 – The Log Insights window

  1. Once you select it, you can see the default query:

Figure 7.14 – The Log Insights filter

  1. Click the Run query button in order to see the result. In this filter, fields represents the columns that will...