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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By : Scott Patterson
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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By: Scott Patterson

Overview of this book

Serverless computing is a way to run your code without having to provision or manage servers. Amazon Web Services provides serverless services that you can use to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Starting with the basics of AWS Lambda, this book takes you through combining Lambda with other services from AWS, such as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Step Functions. You’ll learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using examples in Node.js, Java, Python, and C# before you move on to developing and deploying serverless APIs efficiently using the Serverless Framework. In the concluding chapters, you’ll discover tips and best practices for leveraging Serverless Framework to increase your development productivity. By the end of this book, you’ll have become well-versed in building, securing, and running serverless applications using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda without having to manage any servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Why We're Here
4
Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions
9
Section 3: Development Patterns
12
Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

Embedded security

If it's true that we can now automate more than ever, then it's also true that we can monitor, test, and release our code more often. To keep our agility and speed of release, we must be able to prove that we are making changes in a secure fashion, and not introducing new vulnerabilities. That means our security compliance game needs to step up in parity with the speed of release. This is what SecDevOps is all about.

To reach the pace of innovation our organizations strive for, we must automate security compliance with scanning tools and testing strategies, and apply guard rails. With the tools and capabilities we have now, we can embed these things into our automation processes so we are far more on top of security at all layers.

Enforcement via tagging...