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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789958355

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Scott Patterson

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Why We're Here FREE CHAPTER

2. The Evolution of Compute

3. Event-Driven Applications

4. Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions

5. The Foundations of a Function in AWS

6. Adding Amazon API Gateway

7. Leveraging AWS Services

8. Going Deeper with Lambda

9. Section 3: Development Patterns

10. Serverless Framework

11. CI/CD with the Serverless Framework

12. Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

13. Data Processing

14. AWS Automation

15. Creating Chatbots

16. Hosting Single-Page Web Applications

17. GraphQL APIs

18. Assessment

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Using Amazon S3 with Lambda

S3 (short for Simple Storage Service) is a fully managed object storage service that you can use to store objects. It is inherently fault-tolerant, durable, and is said to have unlimited storage capacity.

In this section, we'll discover how to create an event source trigger from S3 and how to upload and download objects using the AWS SDK.

Revision

Let's have a bit of a recap to see why S3 would be such a good fit for storing objects in a serverless application. First, why am I talking about objects in a storage system instead of files? S3 is an object storage system as opposed to block storage with a file system layered on top. Each piece of data is considered an object, and these are...

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Authors (1)

Scott Patterson

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.

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