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
