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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 Kinesis


Amazon Kinesis is a distributed data streaming platform for collecting and storing data streams from hundreds of thousands of producers. Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to set up high capacity pipes that can be used to collect and analyze your data in real time. You can process incoming feeds at any scale, enabling you to respond to different use cases, such as customer spending alerts and click stream analysis. Amazon Kinesis enables you to provide curated feeds to customers on a real-time basis rather than performing batch processing on large, text-based log files later on. You can just send each event to Kinesis and have it analyzed right away to find patterns and exceptions, and keep an eye on all of your operational details. This will allow you to take decisive action instantly.

Benefits of Amazon Kinesis

Like other AWS serverless services, Amazon Kinesis has several benefits. Most of the benefits have already been discussed in terms of other services, so I will restrain myself...