AWS Lambda in Action

AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end.

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AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back-end.

Starting with an overview of AWS Lambda, the book moves on to show you common examples and patterns that you can use to call Lambda functions from a web page or a mobile app.

The second part of the book puts these smaller examples together to build larger applications. By the end, you'll be ready to create applications that take advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.

What's inside
Create a simple API
Create an event-driven media-sharing application
Secure access to your application in the cloud
Use functions from different clients like web pages or mobile apps
Connect your application with external services

Requires basic knowledge of JavaScript. Some examples are also provided in Python. No AWS experience is assumed.