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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
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Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions
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Section 3: Development Patterns
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Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

Building, deploying, and managing APIs

Now that we know how to properly secure our APIs, the next thing to do is learn how to build and deploy APIs. Additionally, there are a bunch of controls that will make managing APIs possible.

We're going to explore some of the options and concepts, then in the next section, we'll pull it all together to deploy our very own API.

Building APIs

After covering an introduction to API Gateway, there are a few more concepts and details to learn before we create our own API. We'll start by reviewing the concepts then explain some of the ways to create and build APIs.

An API built and deployed to Amazon API Gateway is made up of resources, methods, and integrations. To show examples...