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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)

API Gateway


API development is a complex process, and is a process that is constantly changing. As part of API development, there are many inherent complex tasks, such as managing multiple API versions, implementation of access and authorization, managing underlying servers, and doing operational work. All of this makes API development more challenging and impactful on an organization's ability to deliver software in a timely, reliable, and repeatable way.

Amazon API Gateway is a service from Amazon that takes care of all API development-related issues (discussed previously) and enables you to make your API development process more robust and reliable. Let's look into this in more detail now.

What is API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that focuses on creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing APIs. Using API Gateway, you can create an API that acts as a single point of integration for external applications while you implement business logic and other...