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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By : Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
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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

Generating SSL certificates using AWS Certificate Manager


SSL provides security for your web server and application users. With the help of SSL, you can prevent hacker attacks on your data that's communicated between your web server and browser. Before implementing the SSL security into our application, let's understand some basic methodologies about SSL. 

What is SSL?

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard security protocol used to secure the communication between a web server and browser by encrypting the data. SSL will make sure the data transmitted from browsers to your web server is encrypted. In order to create an SSL connection, we require to generate SSL certificates and configure our web server to serve under the SSL layer. The next section will discuss  SSL certificates.

What are SSL certificates?

For creating an SSL connection, we need an SSL certificate. SSL certificates can be generated from the Certificate Authority (CA). Before generating the certificate, we need to provide...