Serverless GraphQL on AWS in 4 Minutes - Mapping GraphQL Operations into AWS Lambda @naderdabit

Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

AWS AppSync released direct Lambda resolver support for AWS AppSync GraphQL operations making is easier than ever to build a fully serverless GraphQL API on AWS.

In this video I walk through how this all works by standing up a GraphQL API from scratch, adding a Lambda function as a data source, creating a GraphQL schema, and mapping the GraphQL operations in the schema to the AWS Lambda data source.

I then log out the event object and walk through what data is available in the event.

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