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Re:Moving BBC Online to the Cloud by smarx007 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:05AM (#25015131)
How does one invoke a Lambda function via HTTP without an AWS account (ie a public API call)? I think you are not including it in the "most workloads"?
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Re:Moving BBC Online to the Cloud by dougmoscrop on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:30PM (#25040741)
Most if not all AWS services are really just HTTP APIs. A Lambda invocation is really just a POST to a public AWS endpoint. You can absolutely come up with login flows that obtain a set of temporary STS credentials that are only allowed to invoke your "API" function. (Agreed this is not most workloads)
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