AWS Lambda in Action

Chapter 11. Building a media-sharing application

This chapter covers

• Mapping the architecture to a technical implementation using AWS Lambda
• Best practices for simplifying, consolidating, and evolving the architecture
• Designing the data model on Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB
• Securely implementing the client application
• Reacting to events in the back end

In the previous chapter, you completed the sample authentication service, adding more features, such as changing and resetting the password, and integrating the login process with Amazon Cognito to get temporary AWS credentials.

Now you’ll use the authentication service to manage your users and build a more complex example of event-driven serverless applications: a media-sharing app, where ...