Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Course Duration

3 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

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

Course Description

This course covers the design and implementation of serverless applications on AWS. Students learn to build event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions, while applying best practices for security, observability, and deployment automation.

Learning Objectives

• Event-driven best practices to a serverless application design using appropriate AWS services
• Identify the challenges and trade-offs of transitioning to serverless development, and make recommendations that suit your development organization and environment
• Build serverless applications using patterns that connect AWS managed services together, and account for service characteristics, including service quotas, available integrations, invocation model, error handling, and event source payload
• 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 to writing Lambda functions inclusive of error handling, logging, environment re-use, using layers, statelessness, idempotency, and configuring concurrency and memory
• Apply best practices for building observability and monitoring into your serverless application
• Apply security best practices to serverless applications
• Identify key scaling considerations in a serverless application, and match each consideration to the methods, tools, or best practices to manage it
• Use AWS SAM, AWS CDK, and AWS developer tools to configure a CI/CD workflow, and automate deployment of a serverless application
• Create and actively maintain a list of serverless resources that will assist in your ongoing serverless development and engagement with the serverless community

Course Outline

1 – Thinking Serverless

2 – API-Driven Development and Synchronous Event Sources

3 – Introduction to Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control

4 – Serverless Deployment Frameworks

5 – Using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS to Decouple Components

6 – Event-Driven Development Using Queues and Streams

7 – Writing Good Lambda Functions

8 – Step Functions for Orchestration

9 – Observability and Monitoring

10 – Serverless Application Security

11 – Handling Scale in Serverless Applications

12 – Automating the Deployment Pipeline