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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa
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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

by Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
324 pages
8h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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How AWS Lambda works

You need to write a function, which will be executed by AWS Lambda on your behalf.

AWS Lambda is implemented on a container-based model that supports a runtime environment and executes the code as per the Lambda function configuration. When the Lambda function is invoked, it launches the container (an execution environment) based on the AWS Lambda configuration and enables the basic runtime environment, which is required to execute the code.

Let's start with some practical work:

  1. To create a Lambda function, you must have an AWS account. If you don't have an AWS account, then you need to sign up on AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/) by providing some basic contact and payment information, as it's essential information required ...
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