From the course: Complete Guide to Serverless Web App Development on AWS

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Progress check: Migrating an existing web app to lambda

Progress check: Migrating an existing web app to lambda - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Serverless Web App Development on AWS

Progress check: Migrating an existing web app to lambda

- [Instructor] Let's recap everything you learned so far and see how all the pieces fit together. In the previous section, you learned how to build new serverless web apps using REST and GraphQL with API Gateway. In this section, you explore how to migrate existing applications to serverless. You learn about migration strategies. You learn the different approaches to migrate applications like the hybrid approach, the strangle fit pattern, the event-driven extensions, and the lift and shift. You learn about the different challenges and solutions you might face. You also explore all the challenges in migrations, such as handling state, performance optimization and monitoring, and how to address them. Then you learn about some tools to assist you with the migration, like the Lambda Web Adapter and Lambda functions URL. You learn how these tools allow you to run traditional web apps and container images on AWS Lambda without significant refactoring all your application, and everything was…

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