Event-driven, Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and API Gateway

Gary A. Stafford
14 min readOct 4, 2019

In this post, we will explore modern application development using an event-driven, serverless architecture on AWS. To demonstrate this architecture, we will integrate several fully-managed services, all part of the AWS Serverless Computing platform, including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3, and DynamoDB. The result will be an application composed of small, easily deployable, loosely coupled, independently scalable, serverless components.

What is ‘Event-Driven’?

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Gary A. Stafford

Area Principal Solutions Architect @ AWS | 10x AWS Certified Pro | Polyglot Developer | DataOps | GenAI | Technology consultant, writer, and speaker