Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS
Build event-driven applications without managing servers.
3 daysIntermediate16 modules
About this course
Build event-driven applications without managing servers. You will design with serverless principles, create APIs with API Gateway, secure them with Cognito and IAM, decouple with SNS, EventBridge, queues and streams, and compare SAM, CDK, Amplify and CloudFormation.
What you'll learn
- Understand the core principles of serverless architecture
- Learn to use Amazon API Gateway for serverless applications
- Practice error handling, monitoring, and logging strategies
- Compare AWS SAM, AWS CDK, Amplify, and CloudFormation
- Deploy a full serverless solution using AWS best practices
Curriculum
16 modules
- Overview of the application you'll build
- Access the Student Guide, Lab Guide, and Online Course Supplement
- Actively maintain a list of serverless resources to support learning
- Review best practices for building serverless applications
- Understand statelessness, idempotency, and invocation models
- Identify services in the AWS serverless ecosystem
- Discuss environment re-use and using layers
- Explore Amazon API Gateway for serverless web applications
- Try-it-out: Integrate API Gateway with Lambda
- Compare REST, HTTP, WebSocket, and GraphQL APIs
- Review available integrations for synchronous events
- Differentiate authentication and authorization
- Implement identity and access control with Amazon Cognito
- Compare user pools vs. federated identities
- Secure API Gateway with IAM policies and Cognito authorizers
- Use AWS frameworks to deploy applications declaratively
- Compare AWS SAM, AWS CDK, Amplify, and CloudFormation
- Try-it-out: Deploy with the AWS SAM CLI
- Discuss frameworks to deploy a serverless solution
- Understand asynchronous event flows and event source payloads
- Use EventBridge to route events to targets
- Try-it-out: Configure Amazon SNS topics with filters
- Compare use cases for SNS vs. EventBridge
- Trigger Lambda with Amazon SQS and Amazon Kinesis
- Configure SQS with a dead-letter queue
- Match considerations to polling models
- Lab: Configure dead-letter queue as Lambda event source
- Lab 1: Deploying a Simple Serverless Application
- Lab 2: Message Fan-Out with Amazon EventBridge
- Understand the Lambda lifecycle
- Apply best practices for versioning and aliases
- Implement robust error handling and logging
- Try-it-out: Configure and test a Lambda function
- Orchestrate tasks using AWS Step Functions
- Explore callback patterns and direct integrations
- Troubleshoot workflows with X-Ray
- Try-it-out: Build and debug a state machine
- Leverage CloudWatch Logs and Metrics
- Use embedded metrics and service quotas
- Enable AWS X-Ray and interpret traces
- Try-it-out: Use ServiceLens and CloudWatch alarms
- Lab 3: Workflow Orchestration Using Step Functions
- Lab 4: Observability and Monitoring
- Apply best practices to secure APIs, data stores, and Lambda
- Explore auditing and traceability
- Maintain resources for ongoing security
- Explore scaling considerations in serverless systems
- Learn how Lambda handles concurrency
- Analyze scaling across event sources
- Use API Gateway throttling and quotas
- Understand CI/CD in serverless development
- Build deployment pipelines using AWS SAM and CloudFormation
- Automate infrastructure updates with AWS CDK
- Try-it-out: Deploy a serverless CI/CD solution
- Lab 5: Securing Serverless Applications
- Lab 6: Serverless CI/CD on AWS
Who it's for
Developers building modern applications on AWS Lambda and related services.
Before you start
- Working knowledge of core AWS services and public cloud implementation
- Knowledge equivalent to completing the following serverless digital trainings: AWS Lambda Foundations and Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications
- Attended one of Architecting on AWS or Developing on AWS
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