Deploying and executing the Quote API using Zappa

Deployment is an essential part of any web application. We are blessed with Zappa and AWS Lambda, which provide us with the essence of being serverless. As we are enhancing the Quote API application created in the previous chapter, there will some modifications as per our current requirements. 

 

In the coming sections, we will be discussing some changes in Zappa settings.

Setting up the virtual environment

As discussed before, we are using the Chapter08 code base. There is some modification required in the zappa_settings.json file, such as the project_name needing to be changed to Chapter09, as shown in the following snippet:

{
...
"project_name": "chapter-9"
...
}

Once you've changed project_name, you need to configure the virtual environment with pipenv, by using the pipenv install command. This will create a new virtual environment with a changedproject_name.

We are using the Boto3 library to interact with Amazon SNS. Hence, we will need to...