2 First steps to serverless
This chapter covers
- Writing and deploying AWS Lambda functions
- AWS services such as Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elemental MediaConvert
- Using the Serverless Framework to organize and deploy services
To give you an understanding of serverless architectures, you’re going to build a small, event-driven serverless application: specifically, a video-encoding pipeline. Your service will transcode videos, uploaded to an S3 bucket, from their existing format, resolution or bit rate to a different format or bit rate (kind of like YouTube only without the frontend website).
To build this video-encoding pipeline, you will use AWS Lambda, S3, and Elemental MediaConvert. Later, if you so desire, you can build a frontend around ...
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