Getting Started with AWS

All major public cloud vendors currently provide serverless products. In this book, the focus will be on AWS, which is often considered the best option with regards to features, costs, and reliability. As we need to use a large number of AWS services throughout the book, this chapter introduces them to help you to get familiar with the building blocks of our sample application.

The main topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Handling user accounts
• Using the AWS, CLI, and the SDK services
• Deploying your first Lambda function
• Other AWS serverless products
• The architecture of our sample application
• Estimating costs

After this chapter, you will be able to start playing with AWS.