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Uriel Bitton
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What Are AWS Lambda Function URLs And Why You Don’t Need API Gateway

API Gateway is a powerful, highly scalable and fully managed (rest) API service that AWS offers to you at very low charge (1 million calls per month for free).

AWS Lambda function URLs allow you to define an endpoint for your function which you can call directly from your front-end using a simple fetch request.

This makes it a very useful feature. Furthermore, you can configure security with CORS and IAM permissions for access & security management...

Read the full article here.

https://medium.com/success-with-aws/what-are-aws-lambda-function-urls-and-why-you-dont-need-api-gateway-0f8504e31984

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