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Building Serverless Microservices in Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Microservices in Python A complete guide to building, testing, and deploying microservices using serverless computing on AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789535297
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Takashi Freeman Richard Takashi Freeman
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Preface 1. Serverless Microservices Architectures and Patterns FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Serverless Data API 3. Deploying Your Serverless Stack 4. Testing Your Serverless Microservice 5. Securing Your Microservice 6. Summary and Future Work 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Securing your serverless microservices

In this section, we will discuss security in detail.

Lambda security

As we discussed earlier, AWS Lambda is the central component in a serverless stack, or the integration connector with your custom code, triggered by events between AWS managed services. A Lambda function always has an execution IAM role associated with it, and using policies attached to that role is one of the best, and most secure, ways to deny or grant it access to other AWS resources. The beauty is that there is no need to manage or exchange any keys or passwords for a lot of the AWS managed services, such as S3, DynamoDB, and Kinesis Stream. There are some exceptions, such as some of the Amazon Relational Database Service...

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