Community documentation for AWS Chalice

AWS Chalice is a library for serverless Python application development using AWS Lambda. Chalice is suited for:

• Writing HTTPS APIs that wrap AWS infrastructure.
• Building libraries of Ops functions, including ChatOps.
• Managing AWS accounts programmatically.
• Creating web applications with your favorite front-end toolkit.
• Providing the web API backend layer for cross-platform desktop and mobile applications written in Qt for Python.

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Contents

• AWS Projects
• AWS Python SDKs
• 3rd-party Python
• Tooling
• Made with Chalice
• Articles
• AWS Serverless Architectures
• AWS Labs
• Related Awesome Lists

AWS Projects

Supercharge your app.

• AWS Data Wrangler - Pandas on AWS - Easy integration with Athena, Glue, Redshift, Timestream, QuickSight, Chime, CloudWatchLogs, DynamoDB, EMR, SecretManager, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLServer and S3 (Parquet, CSV, JSON and EXCEL).
• AWS AutoGluon - Automate machine learning training and deployment.
• AWS Lambda Powertools - A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda functions to ease adopting best practices such as tracing, structured logging, custom metrics async, parameters and secrets management, idempotency, and more.
• AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) - The CDK can deploy Chalice apps, or Chalice can deploy CDK apps.
• AWS Solutions Constructs Patterns - Architectural patterns for the CDK that can be chained together.
• AWS Serverless Application Repository - Serverless AWS applications.
• DynamoDB Global Tables - NoSQL database.
• Aurora Serverless Global Database 2 - OLTP database.
• AWS Amplify - Front-end toolkit.
• Amazon Athena Federated Query - Author pure lambda functions for ad-hoc datalakes.
• AWS SDK for JavaScript - Combine with Brython or Pyodide for front-end Python development.
• QLDB Python Driver - A Python implementation of a driver for Amazon Quantum Ledger Database.
• AWS CloudWatch Embedded Metrics - Amazon CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format Client Library.

AWS Python SDKs

Every SDK in one place.

• AWS SDK for Python (boto3) - See aioboto3 for the async version.
• AWS X-Ray SDK for Python - Instrument with from aws_xray_sdk.core import patch_all;patch_all();.
• AWS IoT SDK for Python - Can talk to Chalice via Kinesis Streams.
• AWS C Common Runtime - Use with the AWS CRT Python module.
• AWS Encryption SDK for Python - Hard encryption in your application logic.
• AWS SageMaker SDK for Python - Train and deploy machine learning models. Integrate with your EMR cluster.
• AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK for Python - Managed AI/ML infrastructure.
• AWS Braket SDK for Python - Leverage D-Wave quantum computing devices.
• AWS DynamoDB Encryption SDK for Python - Encrypt data before sending it to DynamoDB.
• AWS Transcribe Streaming SDK for Python - Convert audio into text.
• AWS Data API SDK for Python - HTTP interface to your non-transactional data lake, made with Chalice.
• AWS Config Rules Development Kit for Python - The AWS Config Rules Development Kit helps developers set up, author and test custom Config rules. It contains scripts to enable AWS Config, create a Config rule and test it with sample ConfigurationItems.
• AWS Streamer SDK for Python - A collection of video processing and streaming tools for the AWS platform.

3rd-party Python

Only the best.

• Dask - Disributed DataFrames built on Pandas
• 3M Falcano - DynamoDB ORM, allowing for single table designs. Successor to PynamoDB.
• S3Fs - Use S3 like a filesystem.
• PySide2 - Official Qt module for Python.
• Hy: A lisp written in Python - A lisp that can you can use in your Python code, for FP.
• Toolz: A set of utility functions for iterators, functions, and dictionaries - FP primitives.
• AWS Limit Checker - Detect when you are about to run up against AWS limits.
• Click - Create a CLI.
• Netflix Metaflow S3 - Achieve 20 gigabit S3 throughput.
• Slack Bolt - Enable AWS ChatOps with Slack's built-in Chalice support.
• Troposphere - Write CloudFormation using Python.
• Scepter - CloudFormation deployment library.
• taskcat - CloudFormation testing library from AWS.
• PyCognito - Manage and use Cognito user pools.
• mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on your EMR cluster.

Tooling

Create diagrams, write code.

• 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.

Made with Chalice

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.

Articles

Critical background reading.

• 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

AWS Serverless Architectures

Inspiration for your app. Complete list of 500+ sample architectures.

• AWS Glue ETL Code Samples
• AWS Control Tower Account Creation Automation
• AWS Serverless Ecommerce Platform
• Recurring Security Hub Summary Email
• SQS dead letter queue replay with backoff and jitter
• Tokenization and Encryption of Sensitive Data
• AWS ParallelCluster serverless API
• Amazon WorkMail Lambda Templates
• S3 Glacier Bulk Retrieval
• AutoML with AutoGluon, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Lambda
• Processing ML Workloads asynchronously in Batch using SageMaker Batch Transform
• Serverless Tracking Pixel
• Serverless Reference Architecture: Real-time File Processing
• Serverless Reference Architecture: IoT Backend
• AWS X-Ray Serverless Samples

AWS Labs

More inspiration from AWS Labs, closer to production-ready. Complete list of 100+ Labs solutions.

• AWS Control Tower Customizations
• Serverless Data Lake Framework (SDLF)
• Media Insights Engine
• Serverless Transit Network Orchestrator
• Amazon Aurora Postgres Advanced Monitoring
• AWS Serverless Twitter Event Source
• Serverless Subtitles
• AWS Serverless Financial Functions

Related Awesome Lists

• Awesome AWS
• Awesome Alexa
• Awesome Amplify
• Awesome AppSync
• Awesome IAM
• Awesome CDK
• Awesome CloudFormation
• Awesome EC2 Spot
• Awesome ECS
• Awesome EKS
• Awesome Lambda Layers
• Awesome AWS Research
• Awesome AWS Security
• AWS Security Arsenal
• Awesome Cloud Security
• AWSome Websites
• The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

Related Projects

• Goblet - Like Chalice, but for GCP.