Amazon Web Services for Serverless

In this chapter, we are going to learn about Amazon Web Services for managing a serverless infrastructure. We will be exploring the AWS workflow to create a serverless application. We will learn about the manual process for creating a basic serverless application and an automated process using the AWS CLI (command line interface).

Topics we will cover in this chapter include:

• Transitioning from the traditional server to serverless
• Getting started with AWS Lambda
• How AWS Lambda works
• Executing a Lambda function
• Creating Lambda triggers
• Creating a serverless RESTful API
• AWS Lambda interaction by the AWS CLI