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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 domain names with CloudFront

In this recipe, we will add a custom domain name to a CloudFront distribution. Without CloudFront, S3 bucket names have to be the same as the domain names. To demonstrate this, we will use a domain name, qname.net, to point to the CloudFront domain that is represented by the bucket qname.com.

Getting ready

You will need an S3 bucket configured as a website. You can follow the recipe Setting up an S3 static website to set up an S3 bucket as a static website.

How to do it...

I will create a CloudFront distribution for the S3 bucket...