Building Swift Serverless REST API with AWS Lambda & DynamoDB

Swift REST API & AWS Lambda & DynamoDB

Last month, The Swift Core Team & Swift Server Work Group had announced the availability of Swift AWS Lambda Runtime as well as support of Swift on Amazon Linux 2 OS. With both of this announcement, we finally have some official support to run Swift on AWS Lambda environment.

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Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime

Swift has many advantages such as low memory footprint, high performance, and quick start time. The Swift AWS Lambda runtime also uses SwiftNIO to provide high performance non blocking networking engine for us to run asynchronous event driven code.

The runtime itself provides built-in support for many Lambda supported events such as HTTP request event from API Gateway, S3 object storage event, Simple Notification Service, and Simple Queue Service.

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