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Serverless Programming Cookbook

You're reading from  Serverless Programming Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623797
Pages 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Serverless Computing on AWS 2. Building Serverless REST APIs with API Gateway 3. Data Storage with Amazon DynamoDB 4. Application Security with Amazon Cognito 5. Web Hosting with S3, Route53, and CloudFront 6. Messaging and Notifications with SQS and SNS 7. Redshift, Amazon ML, and Alexa Skills 8. Monitoring and Alerting with Amazon CloudWatch 9. Serverless Programming Practices and Patterns 10. Other Cloud Providers 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

An application programming interface (API) is a set of methods that allow us to programmatically access a component. APIs can be built for different layers, such as the web (http/rest), database, and operating system layers, and so on. A representational state transfer (REST) API is an API that uses REST principles and HTTP protocol to build web APIs that can be programmatically consumed by clients over a network, such as the internet.

Amazon API Gateway is the primary service within AWS for building serverless, scalable, and secure REST APIs. It acts as a gateway between your application and the outside world. You only pay for the API calls and data that are transferred out, and you do not have to maintain a server. It also provides support for testing, authorization, API version management, deployment, and maintaining and monitoring your REST APIs.

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