AWS Serverless Multi-Tier Architectures with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda

Publication date: October 20, 2021 (Document revisions)

Abstract

This whitepaper illustrates how innovations from Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used to change the way you design multi-tier architectures and implement popular patterns such as microservices, mobile backends, and single-page applications. Architects and developers can use Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and other services to reduce the development and operations cycles required to create and manage multi-tiered applications.

Are you Well-Architected?

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of the decisions you make when building systems in the cloud. The six pillars of the Framework allow you to learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems. Using the AWS Well-Architected Tool, available at no charge in the AWS Management Console, you can review your workloads against these best practices by answering a set of questions for each pillar.

In the Serverless Application Lens, we focus on best practices for architecting your serverless applications on AWS.

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