Serverless Application Development with AWS CDK

By this point, you have acquired the skills needed to navigate AWS CDK with ease and can confidently apply CDK to your projects. Throughout this book, we have emphasized that CDK simplifies the maintenance of both traditional cloud applications, whether virtualized or containerized, as well as serverless application development. The challenges of serverless development have previously included the overwhelming amount of JSON and YAML code required to provision various components of a serverless stack. Fortunately, AWS CDK’s comprehensive toolkit makes managing these components significantly more manageable. The remaining chapters of this book will delve into various techniques for effectively working with AWS CDK and serverless architecture.

In the previous chapter, we learned how to test our CDK code. In this chapter, we are going to learn how to make our code serverless by ditching RDS and ECS for API Gateway and AWS Lambda...