Serverless Architectures with AWS

Course Description

Serverless Architectures with AWS teaches you how to build serverless applications on AWS—applications that do not require the developer to provision, scale, or manage any servers. Using an event-driven approach and AWS Lambda as the primary service, the course explains the many benefits of serverless architectures. By the end of the course, you will be ready to create and run your first serverless application that takes advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS. With this new architecture, you will be able to focus on your product instead of worrying about managing and operating servers to run it.

Overview

Serverless Architectures with AWS begins with an introduction to the serverless model and helps you get started with AWS. You'll also get to grips with other capabilities of the AWS Serverless Platform and see how AWS supports enterprise-grade serverless applications with and without Lambda.

This course will guide you through deploying your first serverless project and exploring the capabilities of serverless Amazon Athena, an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. You’ll also learn about AWS Glue, a fully managed extract, transfer, and load (ETL) service that makes categorizing data easy and cost-effective. You'll study how Amazon Kinesis makes it possible to unleash the potential of real-time data insights and analytics with capabilities such as Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Data Analytics. Last but not least, you’ll be equipped to combine Amazon Kinesis capabilities with AWS Lambda to create lightweight serverless architectures.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Explore AWS services for supporting a serverless environment
• Set up AWS services to make applications scalable and highly available
• Deploy a static website with a serverless architecture
• Build your first serverless web application
• Study the changes in a deployed serverless web application
• Apply best practices to ensure overall security, availability, and reliability

Designed to help instructors prepare to teach the course, Train the Trainer videos are included and can be accessed by redeeming the digital access key on the CHOICE platform.

Course Length

2 days

Scope

Serverless Architectures with AWS takes a hands-on approach to learn how to design and deploy serverless architectures. It contains multiple activities that use real-life business scenarios for you to practice and apply your new skills in a highly relevant context.

Target Audience

Serverless Architectures with AWS is for you if you want to develop serverless applications and have some prior coding experience. Though no prior experience of AWS is needed, basic knowledge of Java or Node.js will be an added advantage.

Technical Requirements

Hardware:

For the optimal student experience, we recommend the following hardware configuration:

• Processor: i5 or equivalent
• Memory: 4GB RAM
• Hard disk: 35 GB available space

Software:

• Operating System: Windows 7 or above
• AWS Free Tier account
• Network access on ports 22 and 80

Course Outline

Lesson 1: AWS, Lambda, and Serverless Applications

• The Serverless Model
• Introduction to AWS
• AWS Lambda

Lesson 2: Working with the AWS Serverless Platform

• Amazon S3
• S3 and Lambda Integration
• API Gateway
• Other Native Services

Lesson 3: Building and Deploying a Media Application

• Designing a Media Web Application – from Traditional to Serverless
• Building a Simple Serverless Media Web Application
• Deployment Options in the Serverless Architecture

Lesson 4: Serverless Amazon Athena and the AWS Glue Data Catalog

• Amazon Athena
• AWS Glue

Lesson 5: Real-Time Data Insights Using Amazon Kinesis

• Amazon Kinesis
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• Amazon Kinesis Firehose
• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics