Clojure on Amazon Web Services
This recipe is a standalone dish where you can learn how to combine the elegance of Clojure with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
AWS was started in 2006 and is used by many businesses as easy to use web services. This style of serverless service is becoming more and more popular. You can use computer resources and software services on demand, without the need to prepare hardware or install software by yourself.
You will mostly make use of the amazonica
library, which is a comprehensive Clojure client for the entire Amazon AWS set of APIs. This library wraps the Amazon AWS APIs and supports most AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic MapReduce, and RedShift.
This recipe has received a lot of its content and love from Robin Birtle, a leading member of the Clojure Community in Japan.
Getting ready
You need an AWS account and credentials to use AWS, so this recipe starts by showing you how to do the setup and acquire the necessary keys...