Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

• An understanding of the basics of AWS cloud architecture
• Knowledge of AWS Lambda

Audience

• Developers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform by Amazon that provides different services on a global cloud infrastructure. Such platforms include AWS Lambda which allows users to build, deploy, and maintain applications without the need for provision servers.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to build serverless applications using services in the AWS serverless platform.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Implement event-driven best practices in designing serverless applications using appropriate AWS services.
• Build serverless applications using AWS services.
• Monitor, secure, and scale serverless applications on AWS.
• Utilize different developer tools to configure and automate serverless application deployment.
• Create and maintain a list of serverless resources that will aid in serverless application development.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Overview and best practices for building modern serverless applications
• Overview of AWS services that support event-driven design for serverless applications

API-Driven Development

• Overview of standard request/response API-based web applications
• Using Amazon API Gateway for serverless applications
• Comparing different API types
• Setting up an HTTP API endpoint integrated with a Lambda function

Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control

• Authentication and authorization comparison
• Authenticating to APIs using API Gateway
• Using Amazon Cognito

Serverless Deployment Frameworks

• Understanding imperative and declarative programming for infrastructure as code
• CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Amplify, and AWS SAM frameworks comparison

Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS

• Using asynchronous event sources
• Amazon EventBridge features and use cases
• Building a custom EventBridge bus and rule
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and EventBridge use cases comparison

Using Queues and Streams on Event-Driven Deployment

• Using queues and streams as event sources for Lambda
• Using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) or Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as event sources for Lambda

Writing Lambda Functions

• Overview of the Lambda lifecycle and using best practices for writing Lambda functions
• Configuring a Lambda function
• Handling errors

Using AWS Step Functions

• Using AWS step functions in serverless architectures
• Standard and express workflow comparison
• Direct integration of step functions

Observability and Monitoring of Serverless Application

• Understanding the three pillars of observability
• Writing and interpreting log files
• Using Amazon CloudWatch logs
• Using AWS X-Ray for observability

Securing Serverless Applications

• Serverless application security best practices
• API Gateway, Lambda, and application security
• Protecting data in a serverless data storage
• Auditing

Scaling Serverless Applications

• Using API gateway for scale management
• Scaling using Lambda concurrency
• Scaling different event sources with Lambda

Deployment Pipeline Automation

• Using CI/CD in serverless applications
• Using tools in a serverless pipeline
• Using AWS SAM features for serverless deployments
• Automation best practices

Troubleshooting

Summary and Next Steps