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Building a Serverless REST API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Learn how to build, deploy, and test a fully serverless REST API using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB. This step-by-step guide covers infrastructure with AWS SAM, IAM permissions, and best practices — no servers to manage.

Building a Serverless REST API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Serverless architecture lets you build APIs without provisioning or managing servers. AWS handles scaling, patching, and availability — you focus on code. In this guide, we'll build a simple CRUD REST API for managing tasks using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB, deployed with the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM).
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