Building and Deploying a Media Application

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Explain the challenges of a traditional web application and making a traditional application serverless
  • Build an API Gateway API and upload binary data using it
  • Work with media processing using AWS Lambda
  • Explain image processing using AWS Rekognition

This chapter teaches you how to deploy your first serverless project step by step, by building a simple serverless application that uploads and processes media files.

Introduction

Enterprises can face tremendous pressure and challenges when building and scaling even simple media-based applications. The conventional ways of building applications require enterprises to invest ...

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