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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By : Scott Patterson
Book Image

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
1
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

Hosting Single-Page Web Applications

We've made it this far through this book, and we know the basics and some useful tips. Let's look at a real-life use case for serverless. In this chapter, we'll introduce a modern way to build and host web applications using serverless architectures components. Ease of deployment, limitless scalability, and cost-efficiency are just a few of the benefits you can expect from adopting this pattern. Keep reading to find out how to deploy a basic example.

We'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding serverless Single-Page Applications (SPAs) on AWS
  • Building SPAs with Serverless Framework