A Gentle Introduction to AWS Lambda

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  • For this example deployment, we'll use a GitHub repository that has our AWS Lambda function defined. The Lambda function in this repo was written with the intention of being used for demonstration purposes, and as a simple function that can be deployed when testing out CI/CD or the many serverless deployment tools available today (such as Serverless Framework, Cloud Development Kit (CDK) etc.)

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  • For this example deployment, we'll use a GitHub repository that has our AWS Lambda function defined. The Lambda function in this repo was written with the intention of being used for demonstration purposes, and as a simple function that can be deployed when testing out CI/CD or the many serverless deployment tools available today (such as Serverless Framework, Cloud Development Kit (CDK) etc.)

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    The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) transform is a AWS CloudFormation macro that transforms SAM templates into CloudFormation templates.

  • AWS SAM is the Serverless Application Model, which allows you to write a template describing the Lambda function, and any related resources you need to run your Lambda. The SAM template uses the YAML markup language and is based on AWS Cloudformation. After reading the template, SAM performs the deployment for you, and you can watch Cloudformation events to identify what the outcome was.

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  • For this example deployment, we'll use a GitHub repository that has our AWS Lambda function defined. The Lambda function in this repo was written with the intention of being used for demonstration purposes, and as a simple function that can be deployed when testing out CI/CD or the many serverless deployment tools available today (such as Serverless Framework, Cloud Development Kit (CDK) etc.)

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