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AWS Lambda function triggers

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AWS Lambda function triggers

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- [Instructor] In the previous videos, you learned that Lambda functions can be triggered in different ways. Let's discuss the most popular triggers and learn when to use them. Amazon API Gateway is an AWS service that allows you to create and maintain APIs. You can create an API that acts as a front door for your application. API Gateway will generate an HTTP endpoint that your clients can call. For example, your clients can call the endpoint with the method get in the path hello and that API will be managed by API gateway. You can configure a Lambda function to get trigger when the API gateway receives a request to that particular endpoint. With this functionality, it is very easy to create a totally serverless web application backend. Amazon S3 is an object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. Websites, mobile apps, corporate applications, and data from IoT sensors or devices. For…

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