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Serverless Architectures with AWS

By : Mohit Gupta
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Serverless Architectures with AWS

By: Mohit Gupta

Overview of this book

Serverless Architecture with AWS begins with an introduction to the serverless model and helps you get started with AWS and Lambda. You'll also get to grips with other capabilities of the AWS Serverless Platform and see how AWS supports enterprise-grade serverless applications with and without Lambda. This book will guide you in deploying your first serverless project and exploring the capabilities of serverless Amazon Athena, an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3 Amazon) using standard SQL. You’ll also learn about AWS Glue, a fully managed ETL service that makes categorizing data easy and cost-effective. You'll study how Amazon Kinesis makes it possible to unleash the potential of real-time data insights and analytics with capabilities such as video streams, data streams, data firehose, and data analytics. Last but not least, you’ll be equipped to combine Amazon Kinesis capabilities with AWS Lambda to create lightweight serverless architectures. By the end of the book, you will be ready to create and run your first serverless application that takes advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Amazon S3


Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3 is nothing but a cloud storage platform that lets you store and retrieve any amount of data anywhere. Amazon S3 provides unmatched durability, scalability, and availability so that you can store your data in one of the most secure ways. This storage service is accessible via simple web interfaces, which can either be REST or SOAP. Amazon S3 is one of the most supported platforms, so either you can use S3 as a standalone service or you can integrate it with other AWS services.

Amazon S3 is an object storage unit that stores data as objects within resources called "buckets". Buckets are containers for your objects and serve multiple purposes. Buckets let you organize Amazon namespaces at the highest level and also play a key role in access control. You can store any amount of objects within a bucket, while your object size can vary from 1 byte to 5 terabytes. You can perform read, write, and delete operations on your objects in the buckets.

Objects...