Welcome to Phase 1: Build an API in the AWS Developer Learning Plan. You are building the first version of your online store's product catalog API. Your website needs to display products to customers, but you have no way to serve product data through HTTP endpoints. Without an API, your product information remains inaccessible to your frontend application.This module teaches you to build and deploy a working REST API using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. You will create Lambda functions that
AWS Dev - Building Your First Serverless API
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AWS Dev - Building Your First Serverless API
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Build serverless REST APIs using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway
Apply REST design principles including HTTP methods, status codes, and resource-based URL patterns
Deploy a serverless API using AWS CDK and test endpoints with curl commands
Skills you'll gain
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Back-End Web Development
- Web Services
- Cloud Computing
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Cloud-Native Computing
- Software Development
- Application Development
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Serverless Computing
- Cloud Development
- Restful API
- Cloud Engineering
- Command-Line Interface
- Software Engineering
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