Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Length 3 days
Price NZD 2550 exc GST

Course overview

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Why study this course

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.

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

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

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 organisation 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

AWS at Lumify Work

Lumify Work is an official AWS Training Partner for Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Through our Authorised AWS Instructors, we can provide you with a learning path that’s relevant to you and your organisation, so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer virtual and face-to-face classroom-based training to help you build your cloud skills and enable you to achieve industry-recognised AWS Certification.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for:

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

Course subjects

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, Authorisation, and Access Control

Authentication vs. Authorisation
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

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.

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 course
Knowledge equivalent to completing the following serverless digital trainings: AWS Lambda Foundations and Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications

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