AWS Serverless Architecture
Building a Modern Serverless Web Application on AWS: Architecture Explained In today’s cloud-native world, serverless architecture has become a game-changer for building scalable, cost-effective, and highly available applications. In this post, we’ll walk through a complete serverless web application architecture built on AWS , using services like Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Rekognition, and more. Here’s the architecture we’ll be breaking down: Overview of the Architecture This architecture supports both static and dynamic website hosting and leverages serverless compute and storage services for seamless scalability and performance. The key components are: Static Website Hosting The static part of the website—typically HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and assets—is hosted in an S3 bucket , fronted by Amazon CloudFront for global content delivery and caching. Flow: Static website files are uploaded to S3 . CloudFront acts as a CDN, improving performance and reducing late...