Course Overview

Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS training will use AWS frameworks to deploy a serverless application in hands-on labs that progress from simpler to more complex topics. You will use AWS documentation throughout the course to develop authentic methods for learning and problem-solving beyond the classroom.

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Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3 Days

Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

Course Objectives

• Apply event-driven best practices to a serverless application design using appropriate AWS services
• Compare and contrast available options for writing infrastructure as code, including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Amplify, AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
• Apply best practices for building observability and monitoring into your serverless application
• Apply security best practices to serverless applications

Prerequisites

Required

• Familiarity with the basics of AWS Cloud architecture
• An understanding of developing applications on AWS equivalent to completing the Developing on AWS classroom training

Who Should Go For This Training?

• Developers who have some familiarity with serverless and experience with development in the AWS Cloud.

Course Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction

• Introduction to the application you will build
• Access to course resources (Student Guide, Lab Guide, and Online Course Supplement)

Module 2: Thinking Serverless

• Best practices for building modern serverless applications
• Event-driven design
• AWS services that support event-driven serverless applications

Module 3: API-Driven Development and Synchronous Event Sources

• Characteristics of standard request/response API-based web applications
• How Amazon API Gateway fits into serverless applications
• High-level comparison of API types (REST/HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL)

Module 4: Introduction to Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control

• Authentication vs. Authorization
• Options for authenticating to APIs using API Gateway
• Amazon Cognito in serverless applications
• Amazon Cognito user pools vs. federated identities

Module 5: Serverless Deployment Frameworks

• Overview of imperative vs. declarative programming for infrastructure as code
• Comparison of CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Amplify, and AWS SAM frameworks
• Features of AWS SAM and the AWS SAM CLI for local emulation and testing

Day 2

Module 6: Using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS to Decouple Components

• Development considerations when using asynchronous event sources
• Features and use cases of Amazon EventBridge
• Try-it-out exercise: Configure an Amazon SNS topic with filtering

Module 7: Event-Driven Development Using Queues and Streams

• Development considerations when using polling event sources to trigger Lambda functions
• Distinctions between queues and streams as event sources for Lambda
• Hands-On Lab 1: Deploying a Simple Serverless Application
• Hands-On Lab 2: Message Fan-Out with Amazon EventBridge

Module 8: Writing Good Lambda Functions

• How the Lambda lifecycle influences your function code
• Best practices for your Lambda functions
• Configuring a function
• Lambda error handling
• Handling partial failures with queues and streams

Module 9: Step Functions for Orchestration

• AWS Step Functions in serverless architectures
• Try-it-out exercise: Step Functions states
• The callback pattern
• Standard vs. Express Workflows
• Step Functions direct integrations
• Try-it-out exercise: Troubleshooting a Standard Step Functions workflow

Day 13

Module 10: Observability and Monitoring

• The three pillars of observability
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Logs Insights
• Using AWS X-Ray for observability
• Hands-On Lab 3: Workflow Orchestration Using AWS Step Functions
• Hands-On Lab 4: Observability and Monitoring

Module 11: Serverless Application Security

• Security best practices for serverless applications
• Applying security at all layers
• Protecting data in your serverless data stores
• Auditing and traceability

Module 12: Handling Scale in Serverless Applications

• Scaling considerations for serverless applications
• Using API Gateway to manage scale
• How different event sources scale with Lambda

Module 13: Automating the Deployment Pipeline

• The importance of CI/CD in serverless applications
• Best practices for automation
• Course wrap-up
• Hands-On Lab 5: Securing Serverless Applications
• Hands-On Lab 6: Serverless CI/CD on AWS