AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app

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Post by arange » Sat, May 16, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
lg.io

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Post by jameshush » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

Hey, just a heads up, you posted your AWS secret key. I'd take that down and change your key ASAP. I had my keys compromised before and someone racked up a $5k AWS bill mining bit coins.

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Post by netcraft » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

jameshush wrote: post #2

Hey, just a heads up, you posted your AWS secret key. I'd take that down and change your key ASAP. I had my keys compromised before and someone racked up a $5k AWS bill mining bit coins.

he mentions in the article he created that account specifically to only have the ability to call that one lambda function - which I didnt realize you could restrict to that level.

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Post by xur17 » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

What's the typical latency for a request when you use lambda, such as for this example?

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Post by detaro » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

jameshush wrote: post #2

Hey, just a heads up, you posted your AWS secret key. I'd take that down and change your key ASAP. I had my keys compromised before and someone racked up a $5k AWS bill mining bit coins.

> One thing you might note is that we’re exposing our AWS public and secret keys. This is actually not that big of a deal. To make this secure, we actually created a new AWS User and with a Policy specifically preventing everything except the one Lambda Function:

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Post by Zaheer » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

I've used http://www.Webscript.io in the past which is essentially just like AWS Lamda to make static sites 'dynamic' with no backend.

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Post by idunno246 » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:30 PM UTC

netcraft wrote: post #3

jameshush wrote: post #2

Hey, just a heads up, you posted your AWS secret key. I'd take that down and change your key ASAP. I had my keys compromised before and someone racked up a $5k AWS bill mining bit coins.

he mentions in the article he created that account specifically to only have the ability to call that one lambda function - which I didnt realize you could restrict to that level.

I like this one better because it demos using google auth to get temporary aws credentials:

https://github.com/cloudnative/lambda-chat

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:34 PM UTC

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Post by zimbatm » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:37 PM UTC

How hard is it to pull in extra dependencies for the script ?

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Post by jetpks » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:37 PM UTC

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The author addresses this in the article. About 2 paragraphs after it first appears.