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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide Learn how to build and deploy serverless applications on AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789340198
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Exploring the Serverless Framework

In the previous chapter, we learned how to use the AWS Management Console to create Lambda functions and APIs. Now, we will use the Serverless framework to programmatically create APIs and Lambda functions. We will use the serverless command-line interface to deploy and test our functions. This will tremendously speed up our development processes.

The term serverless generally refers to applications that make heavy use of third-party cloud services, such as AWS Lambda. These services are also sometimes referred to as cloud functions, serverless microservices, or serverless functions. This doesn't mean that there are no servers involved anymore, just that you haven't installed to manage and operate these servers yourself. This is handled by the cloud provider, who takes care of things like scalability, high availability, security, performance...

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