AWS Serverless Application Project
Learn the structure of an AWS serverless application project.
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What does a serverless application look like?
A serverless application can contain more than one function handler and perform several different functionalities. When it comes to .NET, a serverless application is an ASP.NET Core web application hosted within AWS. Usually, it can be launched as a standard ASP.NET Core web application. However, it has some additional dependencies that allow it to run on AWS.
The playground shows an example of a serverless application. This is an ASP.NET Core Web API application with a calculator controller that allows us to perform various math operations on two numbers.
{
"Logging": {
"LogLevel": {
"Default": "Information",
"Microsoft.AspNetCore": "Warning"
}
},
"AllowedHosts": "*"
}A serverless ASP.NET Core application works differently than other AWS Lambda application types. Here’s a diagram of the flow.
Essentially, it works the same way as any other ASP.NET Core web application. The key differences are that it’s hosted in an AWS Lambda environment and it’s serverless. We have a standard web application that can dynamically scale ...