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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

By : Markus Klems
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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

By: Markus Klems

Overview of this book

AWS Lambda is a part of AWS that lets you run your code without provisioning or managing servers. This enables you to deploy applications and backend services that operate with no upfront cost. This book gets you up to speed on how to build scalable systems and deploy serverless applications with AWS Lambda. The book starts with the fundamental concepts of AWS Lambda, and then teaches you how to combine your applications with other AWS services, such as AmazonAPI Gateway and DynamoDB. This book will also give a quick walk through on how to use the Serverless Framework to build larger applications that can structure code or autogenerate boilerplate code that can be used to get started quickly for increased productivity. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using Node.js, Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Getting Started with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of web services that together make up a cloud computing platform that can help make an organization more efficient. It offers a broad set of global computing, storage, database, analytic, application, and deployment services. AWS is very beneficial as it is highly flexible and very easy to use. It is also very cost-effective and reliable, with high performance and scalability.

In this chapter, we are going to take a look at fundamental AWS concepts, such as cloud service usage and pricing models. We will explore the AWS web dashboard, the so-called Management Console. On the Management Console, we will take our first steps with Lambda and the API Gateway Service.

Now, we are going to have a look at the following topics:

  • Introduction to the fundamental concepts of AWS
  • AWS account walkthrough
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS API Gateway