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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

You're reading from AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide Learn how to build and deploy serverless applications on AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789340198

Length 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Klems

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Getting Started with AWS FREE CHAPTER

2. Exploring the Serverless Framework

3. Building a Serverless Application

4. Programming AWS Lambda with Java

5. Programming AWS Lambda with Python

6. Programming AWS Lambda with C#

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Creating a web client

In the previous section, we created a Cognito pool and added some functionality to our backend to retrieve the Cognito identity from our context object. Here, we will create a web frontend for our application, a web client. We will first generate a JavaScript SDK of our service using API Gateway, and then we will use this SDK with a Cognito client in a simple web page. Open the Amazon Cognito dashboard from the AWS Management Console. To use the Cognito site, go to Services and type in Cognito.

Cognito is a web service that allows you to manage or implement sign-up and sign-in functionality for your application. There are two options that are provided on the Cognito site: Manage your User Pools and Manage Federated Identities. You can create your own Cognito pool or you can use federated identities if you want to allow your users to authenticate, for example, using a Facebook or Google account. It also allows unauthenticated identities. Authorization and highly customized...

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Authors (1)

Klems

Klems

Markus Klems is a software development and system administration expert for scalable, high-availability, and high-performance software systems, such as big data, mobile, web application, and Software-as-a-Service systems. Within the framework of his research and development work at TU Berlin and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Markus has gained in-depth knowledge and experience of complex and large-scale IT systems. He has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2008 and is particularly excited about serverless computing and serverless microservice architectures.

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