AWS Lambda Function URL vs API Gateway – When to Use What - Be a Better Dev
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AWS Lambda Function URLs and API Gateway are two ways to expose your Lambda functions to outside of AWS. But when should you use one over the other? Find out in this article. I recently posted about the early leak of Lambda Function URLs by AWS. AWS lambda function URLs were finally officially announced in
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