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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

By : Markus Klems
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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

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)

Programming AWS Lambda with Python

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to program AWS Lambda with Python. In this chapter, we are going to cover the following:

  • Creating Python Lambda functions on the AWS Management Console
  • Creating Python Lambda functions using the Serverless Framework
  • Building a serverless web-application backend with Python