Embracing Serverless with AWS Amplify: Your Step-by-Step Journey to Success

Aws Amplify:

What is Aws Amplify?

Aws Amplify is a set of tools and services that enables applications to be built and deployed for scale.

How to add Api using aws amplify in lambda

Install and configure the Amplify CLI.

$> ? please select from one of the below mentioned services:

GraphQl

>REST (Select REST as the service type)

$> √ Would you like to add a new path to an existing REST API: (y/N) · no

$> ? Provide a friendly name for your resource to be used as a label for this category in the project: lambdafunction

$> √ Provide a path (e.g., /book/{isbn}): · /book/admin

$> √ Choose a Lambda source : Create a new Lambda function

$> ? Provide the AWS Lambda function name: lambdafunction

$>? Choose the runtime that you want to use: NodeJS

$> ? Choose the function template that you want to use: (Use arrow keys)

❯ Hello world function

Available advanced settings:

• - Resource access permissions
• - Scheduled recurring invocation
• - Lambda layers configuration
• - Environment variables configuration
• - Secret values configuration

❯ $> ? Do you want to configure advanced settings? (y/N) Yes

❯ $> ? Do you want to access other resources in this project from your Lambda function? (y/N) Yes

(if you select yes )

• ENV
• REGION

❯ $> ? Do you want to invoke this function on a recurring schedule? No

❯ $> ? Do you want to enable Lambda layer for this function ?No

❯ $> ? Do you want to configure environment variable for this function?No

❯$> ? Do you want to configure secret value this function can access?No

❯$> ?Do you want to edit the local lambda function now ? No

Successfully added resource lambdafunction locally.

(if you select No )

❯ $>? Do you want to invoke this function on a recurring schedule? No

❯ $> ? Do you want to enable Lambda layers for this function? No

❯ $> ? Do you want to configure environment variables for this function? Yes

❯ $> ? Enter the environment variable name: clientId

❯ $> ? Enter the environment variable value: test

❯ $> ? Select what you want to do with environment variables: I'm done You can access the following resource attributes as environment variables from your Lambda function

• ENV
• REGION
• clientId

❯ $> ? Do you want to configure secret values this function can access? No

❯ $> ? Do you want to edit the local lambda function now? No

Successfully added resource lambdafunction locally.

After your resources have been created update your backend with the push command:

❯ $> amplify push

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