concept web application in category aws

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Web application --Static content for the client application is served from an S3 bucket. An API Gateway provides an API that triggers event handlers in our synchronous and asynchronous services. Our web application client uses the AWS Amplify client SDK to handle the complexity of authentication.

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Users send HTTP requests to a virtual machine. This virtual machine is running a web server along with a custom PHP web application. The web application needs to talk to AWS services in order to answer HTTP requests from users. For example, the application might need to query data from a NoSQL database, store static files, and send email. Communication between the web application and AWS services is handled by the API, as figure 1.11 shows.

Figure 5.9. Building your own IRC infrastructure consisting of a web application and an IRC server

Storing and delivering user-generated content. For example, I built a web application—with the help of the AWS SDK—that stores user uploads on S3.

To start the web application, run the following command. Replace $yourname with your name; the name of the S3 bucket is then passed to the web application: