mangum VS Zappa

Hey! I was in the same place as you are, and the best solution I found was to use Mangum (https://mangum.io/). I believe it also works with Django. Mangum is an adapter that transforms lambda events into the corresponding structure to be received by your Framework API endpoints. We are currently using it with FastAPI and it's great. We code our backend without thinking about whether it will run on Lambda, and Magum takes care of the rest.

In the real world I'm never using static cloud resources. It's all serverless, containers, or horizontal auto-scaling. I let the infrastructure handle asynchronous scaling when needed. For FastAPI specifically I've used Mangum: https://mangum.io/ to provide the asynchronous invocation below the ASGI layer. Then all my FastAPI code can just be synchronous.

I discovered https://github.com/jordaneremieff/mangum which basically transforms a fastapi app to be compatible with aws lambda.

Should I create only 1 apigtw resource with 1 lambda and use mangum + fastapi for my rest api ?

Mangum: For the integration of the Aws Lambda and the Api Gateway with the FastApi

If you go the lambda route, you can use DRF (or any ASGI app) using https://mangum.io/

Yes, it's possible to wrap any asgi app to run in a lambda. Check out Mangum https://github.com/jordaneremieff/mangum

But we do not have a handler function, do we? We have a Mangum object wrapping the FastAPI application. Luckily, the Mangum object acts as a handler function, so we can just add the following in example/src/app/__init__.py:

I've used fastapi in a lambda. The package Mangum simplifies the conversion of lambda handler to a more tradition request.

If people aren't familiar, there's a similar project for Python that's fantastic: https://github.com/zappa/Zappa

Chalice was a consequence, a reaction from AWS to the release of (Zappa Framework)[https://github.com/zappa/Zappa] that provide a very good alternative to migrate very quickly a Django/Flask or any WSGI compliant solution in Python.

Use Zappa https://github.com/zappa/Zappa and host as a Lambda, simple setup and deployment, Lambda only costs when processing requests, no servers to mess around with

One of my favorite options that is probably the most cost-effective is to deploy using a 'severless' model on AWS Lambda using zappa which supports deploying Python webapps to AWS in this way. Zappa also makes it super easy to deploy in just a couple commands! The README includes instructions for everything you might need, including handling sensitive information like your database passwords, running django management commands, setting up DNS, etc.

Deployment works nicely with Docker. I often use AWS AppRunner because it's really easy and just scales. Some people use AWS Lambda with Zappa but I don't recommend it unless you really want to spend less than $15 a month. You will probably need Django Storages to save uploads to an S3 bucket. At some stage you might want to put a CloudFront distribution in front of everything but the configuration of the caching behaviour might be a bit confusing when you do it the first time.

It doesn't have to be an either-or! I have several apps in production that were developed on Django or Flask, and deployed to Lambda using Zappa.

If you need a relational DB, you can use AWS Aurora or RDS and use cloud functions ('lambda' in AWS) that you can invoke with HTTP to process the document first. Zappa will do a lot of the configuration for you if you go that route.

Lambda + API gateway, this library bundles a Django application into a lambda https://github.com/zappa/Zappa . 1 million free invokes from aws, scale to zero, plugs into your RDS

I use Zappa, it just schedules a frequent execution of the lambda: https://github.com/zappa/Zappa#keeping-the-server-warm