Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Course Introduction

• Overview of the application you'll build
• Access the Student Guide, Lab Guide, and Online Course Supplement
• Actively maintain a list of serverless resources to support learning

Understanding Serverless Design Principles

• Review best practices for building serverless applications
• Understand statelessness, idempotency, and invocation models
• Identify services in the AWS serverless ecosystem
• Discuss environment re-use and using layers

Developing APIs and Managing Synchronous Events

• Explore Amazon API Gateway for serverless web applications
• Try-it-out: Integrate API Gateway with Lambda
• Compare REST, HTTP, WebSocket, and GraphQL APIs
• Review available integrations for synchronous events

Securing Access with Cognito and IAM

• Differentiate authentication and authorization
• Implement identity and access control with Amazon Cognito
• Compare user pools vs. federated identities
• Secure API Gateway with IAM policies and Cognito authorizers

Frameworks for Serverless Deployment

• Use AWS frameworks to deploy applications declaratively
• Compare AWS SAM, AWS CDK, Amplify, and CloudFormation
• Try-it-out: Deploy with the AWS SAM CLI
• Discuss frameworks to deploy a serverless solution

Decoupling with SNS and EventBridge

• Understand asynchronous event flows and event source payloads
• Use EventBridge to route events to targets
• Try-it-out: Configure Amazon SNS topics with filters
• Compare use cases for SNS vs. EventBridge

Integrating Queues and Streams

• Trigger Lambda with Amazon SQS and Amazon Kinesis
• Configure SQS with a dead-letter queue
• Match considerations to polling models
• Lab: Configure dead-letter queue as Lambda event source

Hands-On Labs: Serverless Foundations

• Lab 1: Deploying a Simple Serverless Application
• Lab 2: Message Fan-Out with Amazon EventBridge

Writing Efficient Lambda Functions

• Understand the Lambda lifecycle
• Apply best practices for versioning and aliases
• Implement robust error handling and logging
• Try-it-out: Configure and test a Lambda function

Step Functions for Orchestration

• Orchestrate tasks using AWS Step Functions
• Explore callback patterns and direct integrations
• Troubleshoot workflows with X-Ray
• Try-it-out: Build and debug a state machine

Monitoring and Observability

• Leverage CloudWatch Logs and Metrics
• Use embedded metrics and service quotas
• Enable AWS X-Ray and interpret traces
• Try-it-out: Use ServiceLens and CloudWatch alarms

Hands-On Labs: Workflow and Monitoring

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

Security Best Practices for Serverless Applications

• Apply best practices to secure APIs, data stores, and Lambda
• Explore auditing and traceability
• Maintain resources for ongoing security

Scaling and Performance in Serverless Environments

• Explore scaling considerations in serverless systems
• Learn how Lambda handles concurrency
• Analyze scaling across event sources
• Use API Gateway throttling and quotas

CI/CD Automation for Serverless

• Understand CI/CD in serverless development
• Build deployment pipelines using AWS SAM and CloudFormation
• Automate infrastructure updates with AWS CDK
• Try-it-out: Deploy a serverless CI/CD solution

Hands-On Labs: Security and CI/CD

• Lab 5: Securing Serverless Applications
• Lab 6: Serverless CI/CD on AWS