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 A number of getting started Serverless application templates exist to get you up and running quickly
 
 * a minimal [echo function](https://github.com/softprops/serverless-aws-rust) to demonstrate what the smallest Rust function setup looks like
-* a minimal [http function](https://github.com/softprops/serverless-aws-rust-http) to demonstrate how to interface with API Gateway using Rust's native [http](https://crates.io/crates/http) crate (note this will a git dependency until 0.2 is published)
+* a minimal [http function](https://github.com/softprops/serverless-aws-rust-http) to demonstrate how to interface with API Gateway using Rust's native [http](https://crates.io/crates/http) crate (note this will be a git dependency until 0.2 is published)
 * a combination [multi function service](https://github.com/softprops/serverless-aws-rust-multi) to demonstrate how to set up a services with multiple independent functions
 
 Assuming your host machine has a relatively recent version of node, you [won't need to install any host-wide serverless dependencies](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/162869356040/introducing-npx-an-npm-package-runner). To get started, run the following commands to create a new lambda Rust application
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 Alternatively, you can build a Rust-based Lambda function in a [docker mirror of the AWS Lambda provided runtime with the Rust toolchain preinstalled](https://github.com/softprops/lambda-rust).
 
-Running the following command will start a emphemeral docker container which will build your Rust application and produce a zip file containing its binary auto-renamed to `bootstrap` to meet the AWS Lambda's expectations for binaries under `target/lambda/release/{your-binary-name}.zip`, typically this is just the name of your crate if you are using the cargo default binary (i.e. `main.rs`)
+Running the following command will start a ephemeral docker container which will build your Rust application and produce a zip file containing its binary auto-renamed to `bootstrap` to meet the AWS Lambda's expectations for binaries under `target/lambda/release/{your-binary-name}.zip`, typically this is just the name of your crate if you are using the cargo default binary (i.e. `main.rs`)
 
 ```bash
 # build and package deploy-ready artifact
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 ## AWS event objects
 
-This project does not currently include Lambda event struct defintions though we [intend to do so in the future](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime/issues/12). Instead, the community-maintained [`aws_lambda_events`](https://crates.io/crates/aws_lambda_events) crate can be leveraged to provide strongly-typed Lambda event structs. You can create your own custom event objects and their corresponding structs as well.
+This project does not currently include Lambda event struct definitions though we [intend to do so in the future](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime/issues/12). Instead, the community-maintained [`aws_lambda_events`](https://crates.io/crates/aws_lambda_events) crate can be leveraged to provide strongly-typed Lambda event structs. You can create your own custom event objects and their corresponding structs as well.
 
 ## Custom event objects