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Serverless Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Serverless Programming Cookbook Practical solutions to building serverless applications using Java and AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623797
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Serverless Computing on AWS FREE CHAPTER 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

Enabling CORS for the API and testing with CodePen

CORS is a mechanism that allows a web application running at one domain (origin) to access selected resources from a different server. Without CORS, the server will respond with a status code of 403 in such cases. We will create an API gateway service similar to what we did in Chapter 2, Building Serverless REST APIs with API Gateway, but will also enable CORS on the API.

We will first get familiar with the CodePen website and will test our API by invoking it using JavaScript SDK code from within the CodePen website. This will also be a revision of the API Gateway concepts that we learned in Chapter 2, Building Serverless REST APIs with API Gateway, but with the additional support for CORS. We will only discuss new concepts here; for theory on already discussed topics, you may refer to the recipes of Chapter 2, Building Serverless...

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