Learn AWS Serverless Computing: A beginner's guide to using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and services from Amazon Web Services

Build, deploy, test, and run cloud-native serverless applications using AWS Lambda and other popular AWS services

Key Features

• Learn how to write, run, and deploy serverless applications in Amazon Web Services
• Make the most of AWS Lambda functions to build scalable and cost-efficient systems
• Build and deploy serverless applications with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Understand the core concepts of serverless computing in AWS
• Create your own AWS Lambda functions and build serverless APIs using Amazon API Gateway
• Explore best practices for developing serverless applications at scale using Serverless Framework
• Discover the DevOps patterns in a modern CI/CD pipeline with AWS CodePipeline
• Build serverless data processing jobs to extract, transform, and load data
• Enforce resource tagging policies with continuous compliance and AWS Config
• Create chatbots with natural language understanding to perform automated tasks

Who this book is for

This AWS book is for cloud architects and developers who want to build and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda. A basic understanding of AWS is required to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. The evolution of Compute
2. Event-driven Applications
3. The Foundations
4. Adding Amazon API Gateway
5. Leveraging AWS Services
6. Going Deeper with Lambda
7. Serverless Framework
8. Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery with Serverless Framework
9. Data Processing
10. AWS Automation
11. Creating Chatbots
12. Single-page Web Applications
13. GraphQL APIs

Scott Patterson is a cloud architecture lead, a product owner, and a proud technology geek. With a healthy obsession of all things AWS, Scott gets most excited about the things you can build with serverless patterns and modern cloud-native architectures. He has empowered many organizations to rethink, rearchitect, and accelerate the release of their products by using these very patterns.

Scott is also a huge advocate for AWS within the developer community, being a co-founder of the AWS User Group in Wellington he runs events and conferences throughout New Zealand.

Outside of work, Scott lives a high-adrenaline life where he enjoys paragliding from mountains, building cars, and racing motorcycles.