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Intermediate 25 min

🎉 Congratulations!

You’ve completed the “Deploying a Simple API on AWS” tutorial!

What You Accomplished

✅ Learned cloud basics - Understood what “the cloud” means without buzzwords

✅ Built a Node.js API - Created a Notes API with Express

✅ Adapted for serverless - Converted code to work with Lambda

✅ Deployed to AWS - Got your API running with a real URL

✅ Learned debugging - Used environment variables and CloudWatch logs

✅ Understood pricing - Know what you might be charged for

Your API is Live

You now have a working API that anyone can call:

  • GET /health - Health check
  • GET /notes - Get all notes
  • POST /notes - Add a note

Key Skills You Gained

  1. Cloud Concepts - Understand IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS
  2. AWS Services - Lambda and API Gateway
  3. Deployment - Package and deploy code to the cloud
  4. Debugging - Use logs and environment variables
  5. Cost Awareness - Understand cloud pricing

What’s Next?

Continue Learning

Add a Database:

  • Learn DynamoDB
  • Store notes persistently
  • Handle database errors

Add Authentication:

  • Secure your API
  • Use API keys or JWT
  • Handle authorization

Build a Frontend:

  • Create a UI for your API
  • Deploy to S3 + CloudFront
  • Handle CORS

Explore More AWS:

  • S3 for file storage
  • SQS for message queues
  • CloudWatch for monitoring
  • IAM for security

Practice Projects

  1. Todo API with Database - Add DynamoDB to store todos
  2. Image Upload API - Use S3 to store images
  3. Notification Service - Use SNS to send emails
  4. Multi-tenant API - Add user accounts and isolation

Share Your Work

  • Show your API URL to friends
  • Add it to your portfolio
  • Write about what you learned
  • Help others get started

Resources

AWS Documentation:

Tools:

Communities:

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  • What was most helpful?
  • What could be improved?
  • What would you like to learn next?

Your feedback helps us create better tutorials.

Thank You!

Thanks for completing this tutorial. You’ve taken an important step in learning cloud development.

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