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Publication date : 11/15/2024

Course : Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Official course, developing serverless solutions on AWS

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. AWT
Price : 2570 € E.T.

Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Official course, developing serverless solutions on AWS



With this course, you'll learn as a developer the best practices for creating serverless applications using AWS Lambda and other AWS serverless platform services. You'll use AWS frameworks to deploy a serverless application in hands-on workshops, moving from simple to more complex projects. You'll draw on AWS documentation throughout the course to extend your learning and solve problems beyond classroom training.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. AWT
  3d - 21h00
2570 € E.T.




With this course, you'll learn as a developer the best practices for creating serverless applications using AWS Lambda and other AWS serverless platform services. You'll use AWS frameworks to deploy a serverless application in hands-on workshops, moving from simple to more complex projects. You'll draw on AWS documentation throughout the course to extend your learning and solve problems beyond classroom training.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Apply event-driven best practices to serverless application design
Identify challenges and trade-offs in the transition to serverless development and make recommendations
Create serverless applications using templates that connect AWS managed services together
Compare and contrast the options available for writing infrastructure as code
Best practices for writing Lambda functions
Apply best practices to enhance observability and monitoring in your serverless application
Applying security best practices to serverless applications
Identify the main scaling considerations in a serverless application
Use AWS SAM, AWS CDK and AWS development tools to set up a CI/CD workflow
Automate serverless application deployment
Create and actively maintain a serverless resource list
Take into account service features, including service quotas, available integrations...
Compare options: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Amplify, AWS SAM and AWS CDK

Intended audience
Developers with some familiarity with serverless and experience of developing in the AWS Cloud.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basics of AWS Cloud architecture and completion of the Developing on AWS training course (Ref. AWP).

Certification
Courses without certification.
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Practical details
Teaching methods
Training in French. Official course material in English and digital format. Good understanding of written English.

Course schedule

1
Think serverless

  • Best practices for building modern serverless applications.
  • Event-driven design.
  • AWS services supporting event-driven serverless applications.

2
API-oriented development and synchronous event sources

  • Features of standard Web applications based on request/response APIs.
  • How Amazon API Gateway integrates with serverless applications.
  • High-level comparison of API types (REST/HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL).
Hands-on work
Configuring an HTTP API endpoint embedded in a Lambda function

3
Introduction to authentication, authorization and access control

  • Authentication and authorization.
  • API authentication options using API Gateway.
  • Amazon Cognito in serverless applications.
  • Amazon Cognito user pools vs. federated identities.

4
Serverless deployment framework

  • Overview of imperative vs. declarative programming for infrastructure as code.
  • Comparison of the CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Amplify and AWS SAM frameworks.
  • AWS SAM and AWS SAM CLI features for emulation and local testing.

5
Using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS

  • Development considerations when using asynchronous event sources.
  • Amazon EventBridge features and use cases.
  • Comparison of use cases for Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) versus EventBridge.
Hands-on work
Practice using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS to decouple components: Create a custom EventBridge bus and rule, then configure an Amazon SNS topic with filtering.

6
Event-driven development using queues and flows

  • Use query event sources to trigger Lambda functions.
  • Distinctions between queues and streams as event sources for Lambda.
  • Selection of appropriate configurations when using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
  • Selection of appropriate configurations when using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.
Hands-on work
Configurer une file d'attente Amazon SQS avec une lettre morte comme source d'événements pour Lambda. Déployer une application sans serveur simple. Message Fan-Out avec Amazon EventBridge

7
Best practices for writing Lambda functions

  • How the Lambda lifecycle influences your function code.
  • Best practices for your Lambda functions.
  • Function configuration.
  • Function code, versions and aliases.
  • Lambda error handling.
  • Partial failure management with queues and flows.
Hands-on work
Configure and test a Lambda function.

8
Step functions for orchestration

  • AWS Step Functions in serverless architectures.
  • The callback model.
  • Standard or express workflow.
  • Direct integrations of Step Functions.
Hands-on work
Step function states. Troubleshooting a standard step function workflow

9
Observability and Monitoring

  • The three pillars of observability.
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs and log information.
  • Writing effective logs.
  • Use of AWS X-Ray for observability.
  • CloudWatch metrics and integrated metrics format.
Hands-on work
Interpreting logs. Activate X-rays and interpret X-ray traces. Metrics and alarms. ServiceLens hands-on labs. Workflow orchestration using AWS Step Functions. Observability and monitoring.

10
Serverless application security

  • Best security practices for serverless applications.
  • Safety at every level.
  • API Gateway and application security.
  • Lambda and application security.
  • Data protection in your serverless data stores.
  • Audit and traceability.

11
Managing the scaling of serverless applications

  • Scaling considerations for serverless applications.
  • Use API Gateway to manage scaling.
  • Lambda simultaneity scaling.
  • How different event sources evolve with Lambda.

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.
Hands-on work
Securing serverless applications. Serverless CI/CD on AWS.


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