Serverless Computing with AWS Lambda

Course details

Ready to go serverless? Learn the essentials of working with AWS Lambda, a compute service that handles administration for you, so you're only responsible for your code. In this course, Marcia Villalba helps beginners get up and running with Lambda. To begin, she explains the basics of securing an AWS account and creating IAM users. From there, she moves on to the main concepts of the Lambda programming model and shows how to create Lambda functions and add API Gateway as a trigger. She steps through how to do everything from the AWS console to solidify your baseline knowledge before showing how to create lambda functions with the AWS Serverless Application Framework (SAM), which uses the paradigm of infrastructure as code—the recommended way to develop serverless applications.

Learning objectives
Creating IAM users
The Lambda programming model
Creating AWS Lambda functions
Popular triggers for AWS Lambda
Add API Gateway as a trigger to Lambda
Testing functions with Postman
Creating Lambda functions with SAM
Deploying your application

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Serverless computing with lambdas
02 - What you should know

1. Getting Started with AWS

03 - Secure your AWS account
04 - Basics of IAM
05 - Creating IAM users

2. AWS Lambda Introduction

06 - Lambda overview
07 - Explore the AWS Lambda console
08 - The AWS Lambda programming model

3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

09 - Create your first AWS Lambda
10 - Triggers for AWS Lambda
11 - Introduction to API Gateway
12 - Add API Gateway as a trigger to Lambda
13 - Introduction to Postman
14 - Test your function with Postman
15 - Monitor your function with CloudWatch
16 - Challenge
17 - Solution

4. AWS SAM

18 - Introduction to AWS Serverless Application Framework (SAM)
19 - Why infrastructure as code is so important
20 - Setting up SAM
21 - Create your first project with SAM
22 - Create a Lambda function with SAM
23 - Add an API Gateway trigger to Lambda

5. Deploying Your Application

24 - Package with CloudFormation
25 - Deploy to AWS
26 - Test your Lambda application with Postman
27 - See function logs with SAM
28 - Challenge
29 - Solution

Conclusion

30 - Clean up your AWS environment
31 - Next steps