Course description This course gives developers exposure to and practice with best practices for building serverless applications using AWS Lambda and other services in the AWS serverless platform. You 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.

Course level: Intermediate

Duration 3 days

Activities

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, videos, knowledge checks, and group exercises.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

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

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with the basics of AWS Cloud architecture
• An understanding of developing applications on AWS equivalent to completing the Developing on AWS classroom training
• Knowledge equivalent to completing the following serverless digital trainings: AWS Lambda Foundations and Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications

Course Outline

• Module 1: Thinking Serverless
• Module 2: API-Driven Development and Synchronous Event Sources
• Module 3: Introduction to Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control
• Module 4: Serverless Deployment Frameworks
• Module 5: Using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS to Decouple Components
• Module 6: Event-Driven Development Using Queues and Streams
• Hands-On Lab 1: Deploying a Simple Serverless Application
• Hands-On Lab 2: Message Fan-Out with Amazon EventBridge
• Module 7: Writing Good Lambda Functions
• Module 8: Step Functions for Orchestration
• Module 9: Observability and Monitoring
• Hands-On Lab 3: Workflow Orchestration Using AWS Step Functions
• Hands-On Lab 4: Observability and Monitoring
• Module 10: Serverless Application Security
• Module 11: Handling Scale in Serverless Applications
• Module 12: Automating the Deployment Pipeline
• Hands-On Lab 5: Securing Serverless Applications
• Hands-On Lab 6: Serverless CI/CD on AWS