Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Module 0: Introduction

Welcome to the course!

Your Instructor

Jimmy R Silva

Sr Technical Trainer

Amazon Web Services

15x AWS Certified

Solutions Architect Pro DevOps Engineer Pro GenAI Developer Pro ML Engineer Associate Solutions Architect Assoc SysOps Admin Assoc Developer Assoc Data Engineer Assoc Cloud Practitioner AI Practitioner Adv Networking Specialty Database Specialty Machine Learning Specialty Security Specialty ML Engineer Early Adopter

The Business Need

Technical support team has a customized ticketing system
Team knowledge base exists but is rarely updated (email-based review)
Hackathon produced a partial "bookmarks" solution
Product manager gave a sprint to build it out as a serverless pilot

Developer Tools & Frameworks

IDE

VS Code / Cloud9

AWS CDK

Imperative IaC

AWS SAM

Serverless IaC

Amplify

Full-stack

AWS Foundational Topics

AWS Cloud

Shared Responsibility, Well-Architected, Regions/AZs

Core Services

IAM, S3, CloudWatch

Serverless

API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda

Lambda Concepts

Cold starts, event sources, ephemeral

Logistics

Register for AWS Builder Labs (check welcome email)
Course guide via eVantage Bookshelf (VitalSource)
Browser: Chrome, Firefox, or Edge
Online Course Supplement (OCS) for additional resources
6 independent labs (2 per day)
Try-it-out (TIO) exercises during class

Primary Resources

Read

aws.amazon.com/serverless
Well-Architected Serverless Lens

Follow

Serverless Land
AWS Compute Blog

Watch

AWS Serverless YouTube
Build on Serverless

Build

Serverless Workshops
on GitHub

Day 1 Agenda

Module 1: Thinking Serverless
Module 2: API-Driven Development and Synchronous Event Sources
Module 3: Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control
Module 4: Serverless Deployment Frameworks
Module 5: Using EventBridge and SNS to Decouple Components
Module 6: Event-Driven Development Using Queues and Streams

Labs

Lab 1: Deploying a Simple Serverless Application
Lab 2: Message Fanout with Amazon EventBridge

Day 2 Agenda

Module 7: Writing Good Lambda Functions
Module 8: Step Functions for Orchestration
Module 9: Observability and Monitoring

Labs

Lab 3: Workflow Orchestration Using AWS Step Functions
Lab 4: Observability and Monitoring

Let's Go!

Time to build serverless!