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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)

Using custom domains with S3 static websites

In this recipe, we will look at how to use custom domain names with S3. Using custom domains with S3 requires that the domain name (including the WWW sub-domain) is the same as that of the bucket name. We can have a bucket for a naked domain (for example, qnatime.com), and another bucket for its WWW sub-domain (for example, www.qnatime.com); the WWW sub-domain forwards the request to the naked domain.

Getting ready

You should have a public domain with a HostedZone configured in Route 53. Please refer to the recipes Registering a domain name with Route 53 and Using domains registered with other registrars.

Also, we will not discuss the details related to the creation of an S3 static...