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Enhance your AWS Chalice app with these highly suitable AWS projects:
- AWS Lambda Powertools: Utilities for AWS Lambda functions to adopt best practices, perfect for Chalice's serverless nature.
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK): Seamlessly deploy Chalice apps with the CDK.
- AWS Serverless Application Repository: Find and deploy serverless AWS applications, including Chalice apps.
- AWS CloudWatch Embedded Metrics: CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format Client Library for monitoring Chalice applications.
- DynamoDB Global Tables: NoSQL database, easy to integrate with Chalice's serverless architecture.
- AWS Step Functions: Serverless workflow service for coordinating distributed Chalice applications.
- Aurora Serverless Global Database 2: OLTP database that can be leveraged by Chalice's serverless architecture.
- AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model): Framework for building serverless applications, compatible with Chalice.
- AWS Fargate: Serverless compute engine for containers, can be used in conjunction with Chalice.
- AWS App Runner: Build, deploy, and scale containerized applications quickly, including Chalice apps.
- AWS Glue: Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that can be used with Chalice's serverless nature.
- AWS SDK for JavaScript: Combine with Brython or Pyodide for front-end Python development in Chalice apps.
These AWS Python SDKs can be integrated with AWS Chalice applications:
- AWS SDK for Python (boto3) - See
aioboto3for the async version. - AWS X-Ray SDK for Python - Add tracing to Chalice applications using
from aws_xray_sdk.core import patch_all;patch_all();. - AWS IoT SDK for Python - Enable Chalice applications to communicate via Kinesis Streams.
- AWS Encryption SDK for Python - Encrypt data within your Chalice application logic.
- AWS SageMaker SDK for Python - Train and deploy machine learning models from Chalice applications.
- AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK for Python - Integrate managed AI/ML infrastructure with Chalice applications.
- AWS DynamoDB Encryption SDK for Python - Secure data before sending it to DynamoDB from Chalice applications.
- AWS Transcribe Streaming SDK for Python - Convert audio into text within Chalice applications.
- AWS Transcribe Streaming SDK for Python - Convert audio into text within Chalice applications.
- AWS Data API SDK for Python - Create an HTTP interface for your non-transactional data lake using Chalice.
- AWS Greengrass SDK for Python - Develop AWS Lambda functions for Greengrass Core devices within Chalice applications.
- AWS Glue SDK for Python - Build, deploy, and manage ETL jobs using AWS Glue and Chalice.
- AWS Amplify SDK for Python - Build, deploy, and manage serverless Chalice applications using AWS Amplify.
- AWS AppRunner SDK for Python - Build, deploy, and manage containerized Chalice applications with ease.
These third-party Python libraries can be integrated with AWS Chalice applications:
- Dask - Distributed DataFrames built on Pandas for parallel processing.
- 3M Falcano - DynamoDB ORM for single table designs; a successor to PynamoDB.
- S3Fs - Use S3 as a filesystem in Chalice applications.
- Click - Create CLI tools for Chalice applications.
- AWS Limit Checker - Monitor AWS limits within Chalice applications.
- Slack Bolt - Implement ChatOps with Slack and Chalice.
- Troposphere - Write CloudFormation templates in Python for Chalice applications.
- Scepter - Deploy Chalice applications using CloudFormation.
- taskcat - Test Chalice applications with CloudFormation.
- PyCognito - Manage and use Cognito user pools in Chalice applications.
- mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on EMR clusters for Chalice applications.
- Locust - Perform load testing on your Chalice applications.
- Flask-Migrate - Handle database migrations in Chalice applications using Alembic.
- Sentry - Monitor and track errors in Chalice applications.
- AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for Chalice applications.
- PyTest - Write and run tests for Chalice applications.
- Moto - Mock AWS services for testing Chalice applications.
- Marshmallow - Serialize/deserialize complex data types for Chalice applications.
- APScheduler - Schedule tasks in Chalice applications.
- Celery - Run asynchronous tasks in Chalice applications with distributed message passing.
- Python-JOSE - Implement JSON Web Tokens (JWT) authentication in Chalice applications.
- HTTPX - A fully featured HTTP client for Chalice applications with connection pooling, request and response streaming, and support for async/await.
- Gunicorn - A Python WSGI HTTP server to run Chalice applications locally or for testing purposes.
- PyMySQL - A MySQL database connector for Chalice applications.
- SQLAlchemy - A powerful and flexible Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to interact with various databases in Chalice applications.
- Redis-py - A Redis client library for Chalice applications to interact with Redis data stores.
- Pendulum - An improved datetime library to handle timezones, parsing, and formatting in Chalice applications.
- FastAPI - A high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python, which can be used alongside Chalice.
- Loguru - A library that simplifies Python logging in Chalice applications with better defaults and an easy-to-use interface.
- Pydantic - Data validation and parsing library for Chalice applications using Python type annotations.
- Faker - A library for generating fake data in Chalice applications, useful for testing and development.
- Django - A high-level Python web framework that can be integrated with Chalice for more advanced web application features.
- Flask - Another popular Python web framework that can be used alongside Chalice for building web applications.
- Jinja2 - A powerful templating engine for Python, useful for rendering HTML or other text-based formats in Chalice applications.
- Arrow - A better date and time library for Python, simplifying date and time manipulations in Chalice applications.
- Requests - A popular HTTP library for making API requests in Chalice applications.
- Alembic - A lightweight database migration tool for SQLAlchemy, useful for managing database schema changes in Chalice applications.
- Elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Elasticsearch client for Python, enabling Chalice applications to interact with Elasticsearch clusters.
- Scrapy - A powerful web scraping framework for Python, useful for extracting data from websites in Chalice applications.
- Psycopg2 - A PostgreSQL adapter for Python, allowing Chalice applications to interact with PostgreSQL databases.
- HTTPX - A fully featured HTTP client for Python, providing an alternative to Requests for making API requests in Chalice applications.
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- AWS Toolkit for PyCharm - Tightly integrated editor, for repl-driven development.
- Anaconda Python Distribution - Consistent Python environment for local dev.
- Chalice + LocalStack - Dev against local versions of DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
- LucidCharts - Create diagrams in the official style.
Example GitHub repos.
- Coworks Microframework - Based on Step Functions.
- Agave: REST API for Chalice BluePrints - REST APIs for your managed routes.
- aws-chalice-swagger - How to use Swagger support.
- Lambda Multi-threading in Chalice - Map/reduce across your Lambda cores.
- aws-chalice-boilerplate - How to use
chalice.cli.CLIFactory. - chalice_dockerized - Dockerize your application.
- Chalice-GraphQL - Add a GraphQL API.
- chalice-extended-action - Deploy with GitHub Actions.
- pytest-chalice - Py.test fixtures.
- chalice-cognito-auth - SSO with a Cognito user pool.
- Chalice PynamoDB Docker Starter Kit - A starter kit to begin using Chalice and PynamoDB easily
Critical background reading.
- Use AWS Lambda with AWS Control Tower Audit account to inspect your multi-account setup
- Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions
- Python support GA: improving Python code quality using Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer
- Amplify Flutter is Now Generally Available: Build Beautiful Cross-Platform Apps
- Using container images to run PyTorch models in AWS Lambda
- AWS Chalice adds support for the AWS CDK
- Packaging AWS Lambda functions as container images
- New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings
- Implementing version control using Amazon DynamoDB
- Introducing Middleware Stack in Modular AWS SDK for JavaScript
- How do I give internet access to a Lambda function that's connected to an Amazon VPC?
- AWS Lambda Extensions: What are they and why do they matter
- AWS Chalice now supports Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- Using AWS Lambda Layers with AWS Chalice
- Following serverless best practices with AWS Chalice and Lambda Powertools
- Automatically deploy a Serverless REST API from GitHub with AWS Chalice
- Configuring custom domain names with AWS Chalice
- AWS Chalice Now Supports YAML Templates
- AWS Solutions Constructs – A Library of Architecture Patterns for the AWS CDK
- Using Amazon EFS for AWS Lambda in your serverless applications
- Introducing the AWS Chalice test client
- Use Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) from AWS Lambda to increase performance while reducing costs
- Painless AWS Chalice Application Debug
- Modularizing a Chalice Application for Teams
- Getting started with the AWS Cloud Development Kit and Python
- Run your Python Scripts as Slack Commands (ChatOps)
- Building Serverless Python Apps Using AWS Chalice
Inspiration for your app. Complete list of 500+ sample architectures.
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