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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

By : Markus Klems
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Book Image

AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

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By: Markus Klems

Overview of this book

AWS Lambda is a part of AWS that lets you run your code without provisioning or managing servers. This enables you to deploy applications and backend services that operate with no upfront cost. This book gets you up to speed on how to build scalable systems and deploy serverless applications with AWS Lambda. The book starts with the fundamental concepts of AWS Lambda, and then teaches you how to combine your applications with other AWS services, such as AmazonAPI Gateway and DynamoDB. This book will also give a quick walk through on how to use the Serverless Framework to build larger applications that can structure code or autogenerate boilerplate code that can be used to get started quickly for increased productivity. Toward the end of the book, you will learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using Node.js, Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Building a Serverless Application

In this chapter, we are going to build a web application using a combination of different technologies. For that, we will again be using the serverless framework with Lambda and API Gateway, but we will also use a couple of other AWS services, particularly DynamoDB to preserve our data. We will also be using Cognito to identify users, and then we will use S3 and CloudFront to deploy our front app.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Building a stateless, serverless web application backend
  • Creating a stateful, serverless backend with DynamoDB
  • Creating a web client
  • Deploying a serverless frontend on CloudFront

Let's dive in!