What Is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). we can create functions and self-contained applications.

With AWS Lambda functions we can perform any kind of computing task, from serving web pages to building backend APIs, and we can integrate lambda with other AWS services as well, here in this article, we are integrating lambda with API Gateway.

How To Deploy GraphQL API Using AWS Lambda And AWS API Gateway ?

GraphQL is known for its flexibility and efficiency. AWS Lambda, on the other hand, provides a serverless computing service that allows developers to run code without managing servers, and we pay for what we use. We can combine the power of GraphQL with the scalability and ease of AWS Lambda to serve our GraphQL application easily with minimal steps & efforts possible.

In this article will take you on a step-by-step guide to deploy your own GraphQL API using AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway, we’ll guide you how to define schema, write resolvers for the queries & mutations, configue urls, and deploying the API, testing.

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