Enhancing AWS Lambda Security with Deno

Deno is an alternative JavaScript runtime that was released back in 2020. I’ve been seeing more interest in it recently, and it has some compelling features:

• Avoid the need to install dependencies


• Broad Web-standard APIs support


• TypeScript out of the box


• All-in-one tooling


• Fine-grained permission checks


• Safer NPM packages


• High-performance

The feature that drew my attention was the fine-grained permission checks and the idea of safer NPM packages. Software supply chain attacks have become more frequent (2021, 2022 …

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