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Serverless Programming Cookbook

By : Heartin Kanikathottu
Book Image

Serverless Programming Cookbook

By: Heartin Kanikathottu

Overview of this book

Managing physical servers will be a thing of the past once you’re able to harness the power of serverless computing. If you’re already prepped with the basics of serverless computing, Serverless Programming Cookbook will help you take the next step ahead. This recipe-based guide provides solutions to problems you might face while building serverless applications. You'll begin by setting up Amazon Web Services (AWS), the primary cloud provider used for most recipes. The next set of recipes will cover various components to build a Serverless application including REST APIs, database, user management, authentication, web hosting, domain registration, DNS management, CDN, messaging, notifications and monitoring. The book also introduces you to the latest technology trends such as Data Streams, Machine Learning and NLP. You will also see patterns and practices for using various services in a real world application. Finally, to broaden your understanding of Serverless computing, you'll also cover getting started guides for other cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM cloud. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired the skills you need to build serverless applications efficiently using various cloud offerings.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating a Cognito user pool

Amazon Cognito can be used as an identity provider, as well as an identity broker. In this chapter, we will create a simple Cognito user pool, and we'll explore the use of Cognito as an identity provider. In later recipes, we will look at some more customization for the Cognito user pool.

Getting ready

  • There are no additional prerequisites for completing this recipe, other than the common requirements specified in the chapter's introduction.

How to do it...

The initial setup, such as the user pool creation, is generally done using...