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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 Data Streams


Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a managed service that makes it easy for you to collect and process real-time streaming data. Kinesis Data Streams enable you to leverage streaming data to power real-time dashboards so that you can look at critical information about your business and make quick decisions. The Kinesis Data Stream can scale easily from megabytes to terabytes per hour, and from thousands to millions of records per second.

You can use Kinesis Data Streams in typical scenarios, such as real-time data streaming and analytics, real-time dashboards, and log analysis, among many other use cases. You can also use Kinesis Data Streams to bring streaming data as input into other AWS services such as S3, Amazon Redshift, EMR, and AWS Lambda.

How Kinesis Data Streams Work

Kinesis Data Streams are made up of one or more shards. What is a shard? A shard is a uniquely identified sequence of data records in a stream, providing a fixed unit of capacity. Each shard can...