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Building Serverless Applications with Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Applications with Python Develop fast, scalable, and cost-effective web applications that are always available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787288676
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalem Raj Rohit Jalem Raj Rohit
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Preface 1. The Serverless Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Serverless Application in AWS 3. Setting Up Serverless Architectures 4. Deploying Serverless APIs 5. Logging and Monitoring 6. Scaling Up Serverless Architectures 7. Security in AWS Lambda 8. Deploying a Lambda Function with SAM 9. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

CloudWatch trigger

CloudWatch is the logging and monitoring service for AWS, where logs from most services get stored and monitored. In this section, we will learn how CloudWatch trigger works, how CloudWatch querying works in practice, configuring this in the Lambda function, and also how to make use of this knowledge to build a Lambda function.

So, in this section, we will do the following:

  1. Create a CloudWatch log
  2. Briefly understand how a CloudWatch log works
  3. Create a Lambda function that gets triggered by the CloudWatch trigger

This will help you understand and build resilient and stable serverless architectures.

The process flow for this is as follows:

  1. To create a CloudWatch Logs group, click on the Logs option to the left of the CloudWatch console:
  1. Once you are on the AWS CloudWatch Logs page, you will see a list of log groups that are already present. The CloudWatch...
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