Roman Sachenko
Serverless (AWS)
Things I wish I knew
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Application designs that incorporate third-party “Backend as a Service” (BaaS) services, and/or that include custom code run in managed, ephemeral containers on a “Functions as a Service” (FaaS) platform. (https://martinfowler.com)
Serverless as a thing
Applications that run in stateless compute containers that are event-triggered, ephemeral, and fully managed by a third party.
Serverless as a thing
Benefits
- Reduced operational cost
Serverless as a thing
Benefits
- Reduced operational cost
- BaaS: reduced development cost
Serverless as a thing
Benefits
- Reduced operational cost
- BaaS: reduced development cost
- FaaS: scaling costs
Serverless as a thing
Benefits
- Reduced operational cost
- BaaS: reduced development cost
- FaaS: scaling costs
- Easier operational management
Serverless as a thing
Benefits
- Reduced operational cost
- BaaS: reduced development cost
- FaaS: scaling costs
- Easier operational management
- "Greener" computing
Serverless as a thing
Drawbacks:
- Vendor control
Serverless as a thing
Drawbacks:
- Vendor control
- Security concerns
Serverless as a thing
Drawbacks:
- Vendor control
- Security concerns
- Repetition of logic
Serverless as a thing
Drawbacks:
- Vendor control
- Security concerns
- Repetition of logic
- Configuration
Serverless as a thing
Drawbacks:
- Vendor control
- Security concerns
- Repetition of logic
- Configuration
- Testing
Serverless as a thing
Drawbacks:
- Vendor control
- Security concerns
- Repetition of logic
- Configuration
- Testing
- Debugging
... and more
Serverless as a thing
Technology Stack
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Configuration and Deployment
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CloudFormation (Serverless.yml)
Configuration and Deployment
resources:
Resources:
CognitoUserPool:
${file(./cognito-user-pool.yml)}
CognitoUserPoolClient:
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Benefits:
- what you set is what you get
- consistency
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Drawbacks:
hard to maintain relations between
resources
Configuration and Deployment
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Configuration and Deployment
# DB Campaign Table
Type: AWS::DynamoDB::Table
StreamSpecification:
StreamViewType: NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES
# DB Sync to Search Engine
DbSyncToSearchEngineCampaign:
handler: src/lambdas/dbStreams.syncCampaign
events:
- stream: ${env:DB_STREAM_CAMPAIGN}
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Resources:
CognitoUserPool:
Type: AWS::Cognito::UserPool
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Configuration and Deployment
Resources:
CognitoUserPoolClient:
Type: AWS::Cognito::UserPoolClient
Properties:
ClientName: #client name
UserPoolId:
Ref: CognitoUserPool
Outputs:
UserPoolId:
Value:
Ref: CognitoUserPoolTechnology Stack
Configuration and Deployment
Messy resources
This is Messi
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Configuration and Deployment
Solution:
Create AWS sub-accounts
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WTFs
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WTFs
AWS Cognito
- recreates pool in case of changes in config
- impossible to set custom attributes as required via serverless.yml
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WTFs
Stack Limits
Maximum number of resources per stack - 200
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WTFs
Stack Limits: Create an additional stack
custom:
additionalStacks:
databaseEntities:
Resources:
DbTableAppSettings: ${file(./dynamodb-app-settings.yml)}
DbTableAccountRole: ${file(./dynamodb-account-role.yml)}
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WTFs
Stack Limits: additional stack has own limitations
10 resources per deployment (per try)
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WTFs
Serverless framework
Won't tell you if some libraries that you use are not installed
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WTFs
Environment
What you see locally is not what you get remotely
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Security
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Security
More permissions to manage
- lots of independent functions
- own set of services and responsibilities
- individual storage and state management system
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Security
Solutions:
- determine ACL for functions
- the rule of least privilege
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Security
my-function-name:
handler: myFunction.handler
iamRoleStatements:
- Effect: Allow
Action: dynamodb:scan
Resource: //ARN RESOURCETechnology Stack
Security
More third-party dependencies
- dependencies of functions that rely on third-party software
- extremely challenging to monitor them
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Security
Solutions:
- use package locks
- dependency scanners
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Security
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Security
More data in storage and transit
- functions interact with each other
- functions interact with third-party services
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Security
Solutions:
- credentials should be temporary or encrypted
- stricter constraints on allowed input and output messages
- automatic encryption of sensitive data in transit
- use HTTPS
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Security
More hustle with authentication
Multiple entry points
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Security
Solutions:
- access management services (Microsoft’s Azure AD, Auth0, AWS Cognito)
- keep access privileges to a minimum
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Security
More wallet-busting attacks
All about autoscaling
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Security
Solutions:
- budget limits
- API requests limits
- use DDOS protection tools (Cloudflare)
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Helpfull
Architecture itself: https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
Serverless Framework Middlewares: https://github.com/middyjs/middy
Learned things:
https://read.acloud.guru/six-months-of-serverless-lessons-learned-f6da86a73526
Hidden Costs of serverless:
https://medium.com/@amiram_26122/the-hidden-costs-of-serverless-6ced7844780b
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Serverless (AWS) - Things I wish I knew
By Roman Sachenko
Serverless (AWS) - Things I wish I knew
Ups and downs, life hacks and things to get rid of.
