From the course: Building Dynamic Websites using AWS Lambdas

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Serverless websites from 10,000 feet

Serverless websites from 10,000 feet

- [Instructor] With a growing understanding of how your browser effectively is a front to an API and how Lambda is going to give you access to code, I want to take a step back before we get into the guts of this thing and fill in some of the gaps on the AWS side. In other words, what's really going on with the flow of a request? You know that for the most part every time a user goes to a browser, everything begins with a request. They type in a URL and we've already seen that URL is going to trigger a request from the browser to AWS. AWS receives that request and because of how we've setup route 53 in our domain and pointing it via an A Record and an alias to our S3 bucket it routes it to S3. S3 then is going to return the HTML, the CSS and potentially the JavaScript associated with the particular page requested. And more specifically, it's going to return the HTML, which is then going to reference CSS and JavaScript.…

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