Course Outline
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
Requirements
- An understanding of the basics of AWS cloud architecture
- Knowledge of AWS Lambda
Audience
- Developers
Delivery Options
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