Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

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

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Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS Course Overview

Modern applications are built serverless-first, a strategy that prioritizes the adoption of serverless services, so you can increase agility throughout your application stack. Serverless is a type of application that eliminates all infrastructure management, simplifying the developer experience. Going serverless is an amazing experience and this training gives you all the knowledge required to explore its fullest potential.
The 3-day intermediate course about Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS trains you with the best practices for building serverless applications in the AWS serverless platform. This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, videos, knowledge checks, and group exercises.

Course Curriculum


Audience

This course is intended for:

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

Eligibility Criteria

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 Application

Course Objectives

  • Apply 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

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  • 3 days Instructor led Online Training
  • Experienced Subject Matter Experts
  • Approved and Quality Ensured training Material
  • 24*7 leaner assistance and support

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  • Customized Training Across Various Domains
  • Instructor Led Skill Development Program
  • Ensure Maximum ROI for Corporates
  • 24*7 Learner Assistance and Support

Course Outline


Module 0: Introduction
•    Introduction to the application you will build
•    Access to course resources (Student Guide, Lab Guide, and Online Course Supplement)
Module 1: Thinking Serverless
•    Best practices for building modern serverless applications
•    Event-driven design
•    AWS services that support event-driven serverless applications
Module 2: API-Driven Development and Synchronous Event Sources
•    Characteristics of standard request/response API-based web applications
•    How Amazon API Gateway fits into serverless applications
•    Try-it-out exercise: Set up an HTTP API endpoint integrated with a Lambda function
•    High-level comparison of API types (REST/HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL)
Module 3: 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 4: 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
Module 5: 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: Build a custom EventBridge bus and rule
•    Comparison of use cases for Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) vs. EventBridge
•    Try-it-out exercise: Configure an Amazon SNS topic with filtering
Module 6: 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
•    Selecting appropriate configurations when using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) or Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as an event source for Lambda
•    Try-it-out exercise: Configure an Amazon SQS queue with a dead-letter queue as a Lambda event source
Hands-On Labs
•    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
•    How the Lambda lifecycle influences your function code
•    Best practices for your Lambda functions
•    Configuring a function
•    Function code, versions and aliases
•    Try-it-out exercise: Configure and test a Lambda function
•    Lambda error handling
•    Handling partial failures with queues and streams
Module 8: 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
Module 9: Observability and Monitoring
•    The three pillars of observability
•    Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Logs Insights
•    Writing effective log files
•    Try-it-out exercise: Interpreting logs
•    Using AWS X-Ray for observability
•    Try-it-out exercise: Enable X-Ray and interpret X-Ray traces
•    CloudWatch metrics and embedded metrics format
•    Try-it-out exercise: Metrics and alarms
•    Try-it-out exercise: ServiceLens
Hands-On Labs
•    Hands-On Lab 3: Workflow Orchestration Using AWS Step Functions
•    Hands-On Lab 4: Observability and Monitoring
 

Module 10: Serverless Application Security
•    Security best practices for serverless applications
•    Applying security at all layers
•    API Gateway and application security
•    Lambda and application security
•    Protecting data in your serverless data stores
•    Auditing and traceability
Module 11: Handling Scale in Serverless Applications
•    Scaling considerations for serverless applications
•    Using API Gateway to manage scale
•    Lambda concurrency scaling
•    How different event sources scale with Lambda
Module 12: Automating the Deployment Pipeline
•    The importance of CI/CD in serverless applications
•    Tools in a serverless pipeline
•    AWS SAM features for serverless deployments
•    Best practices for automation
•    Course wrap-up
Hands-On Labs
•    Hands-On Lab 5: Securing Serverless Applications
•    Hands-On Lab 6: Serverless CI/CD on AWS

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Serverless is a type of application that eliminates all infrastructure management, simplifying the developer experience. Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS is an instructor-led course that promotes developer productivity and agile application development. This three-day, intermediate course covers how to build, secure, deploy, and manage modern serverless applications.

Before attending this course, you need to 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

No. This course is independent of any certification.

This is a 3-day course.

In case you fail an exam, you can retake the certification exam after 14 days. There is no limit on number of attempts but you will have to pay the full registration fee for each attempt.

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