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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

Securing your Zappa application using AWS VPC


AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is an isolated virtual network service dedicated to AWS resources. It's similar to a traditional network mechanism in your own data center. AWS VPC enables you to secure your AWS resources from unauthorized access. AWS provides a default VPC for each region. The default VPC helps you configure all of your AWS resources.

AWS VPC is dedicated to your AWS account and enables an isolated layer. You can configure your AWS resources with the AWS VPC. Once you enable the VPC for your AWS resources, then you can specify the following components as per your requirements, such as IP address range, subnets, security groups, route tables, and others. These components are used to set up the networking policy and strategies.

Manual configuration of VPC

AWS Lambda has the privilege of configuring the VPC. The following is a screenshot of the AWS Lambda configuration:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, we have selected a default...