Welcome to the course for creating a Serverless API that scales safely, predictably, and practically infinitely.

• AWSis a leading provider of cloud infrastructure and managed services for software developers to use.

• AWSCDK(Cloud Development Kit)is a framework, created by AWS, for defining Infrastructure as Code and deploying that infrastructure within the AWScloud.

With AWSCDK and the instructions from this tutorial, you'll be learning how to:

1. Deploy a serverless AWSAPIGateway with RESTAPIendpoints

2. Forward APIcalls from APIGateway to AWSLambda, which will scale automatically on-demand

3. Connect the Lambdas to a DynamoDB table, which is a serverless NoSQLdatabase by AWS

Take advantage of the ease of use of AWSCDK and the superb performance of the AWScloud, for launching new ideas easily in a safe, cost-effective, and rapid way.

One of your projects went viral and received a bunch of unexpected traffic?You don't have to worry at all - because all of the services utilized in this tutorial scale transparently and can handle both "development grade"and "production-grade"traffic. AWSis known for its high availability and scalability.

The tutorial assumes you have some basic knowledge of programming languages and JavaScript and how the cloud works.