Don't let Serverless Costs Give You a Heart Attack
Practical strategies to protect your serverless applications from runaway AWS bills, including caching, rate limiting, WAF rules, and DynamoDB safeguards.
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Building a GraphQL API with AWS AppSync and PostgreSQL Aurora
Introduction This is a guide to myself if I need to deploy an Appsync App in the future. Appsync is a Serverless AWS offering for implementing GraphQL APIs. It integrates nicely with Aurora and DynamoDB. Other integrations are done via Lambdas. Architecture Overview Compontents AWS AppSync: The managed GraphQL service that processes API requests Aurora PostgreSQL: Serverless relational database for data storage AWS Secrets Manager: Securely stores database credentials AWS IAM: Manages permissions between services AWS CloudWatch: Handles logging and monitoring The flow of a request is: ...