To get the most out of this book

1. Almost all of the examples in this book use the Serverless Framework to manage AWS resources and Lambda functions. Installation instructions for the Serverless Framework can be found at https://serverless.com/framework/docs/getting-started/.

2. In addition to the Serverless Framework, readers will need to have an AWS account to run the examples. For those new to AWS, you can create a new account, which comes with a year of usage in their Free Tier, at https://aws.amazon.com.

   During the course of this book, you will need the following tools:

   • AWS Lambda
   • AWS RDS
   • AWS API Gateway
   • AWS DynamoDB
   • AWS S3
   • AWS SQS
   • AWS Rekognition
   • AWS Kinesis
   • AWS SNS

   We will learn how to use these tools through the course of this book.