It’s day 2 of my Twenty Projects in Twenty Days series! Let’s look at how we can create a simple API using Python, the Flask Microframework, Amazon Web Services, and the Serverless Framework. This API will help us to manage three different entities:

• Customers
• Surveys
• Responses (to the surveys)

We’ll be storing all this data inside of an Amazon DynamoDB table, making the API endpoints accessible with the Amazon API Gateway, and using AWS Lambda to interact with the DynamoDB table and manage our entities.

During AWS re:Invent this year AWS announced a new way to make HTTP APIs with API Gateway v2. It now includes things like native support for JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and a vastly simplified number of AWS resources to get an API up and running. You can read about all the updates here in my post on the Serverless Blog.