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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 22. Next Steps with AWS Lambda

It's been quite a long journey so far, and yet here we are--the last chapter of this book! If you made it until here, then you definitely need to take a moment and give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back!

So far in this book, we have seen how to write, test, deploy, monitor, and manage your serverless applications using AWS Lambda and a bunch of other interesting tools and services. In this last and final chapter, I wanted to provide you with just a small glimpse into what you can expect from Lambda over the next few years and how is it going to change the way we view and do computing in the cloud!

In this chapter, we will be glancing through some new and recent product releases that are based on or work with AWS Lambda, namely the following:

  • Lambda@Edge: Trigger Lambda to run functions in CloudFront edge locations based on CloudFront events
  • AWS Snowball Edge: Store terabytes of data in a Snowball device and leverage Lambda to analyze and process...