AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

Building a Serverless backend with Python

In the previous section, we created a simple Lambda function using the serverless framework and Python. Now we will create a more complex service similar to the one that we created using Node.js, but using Python. In this section, we will refactor the Lambda function from our previous section. We will add DynamoDB for data persistence, create the other CRUD operations, and test our deployed service using Postman.

Go back to the Atom Editor where we last left off. Let's refactor the handler function a little bit. For example, we're going to replace the body with a short message, Created new article.

Let's print out the event that the Lambda function has been invoked with. Instead of naming the function ...