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

Introduction

Serverless computing with lambdas
What you should know

Getting Started with AWS

Secure your AWS account
Basics of IAM
Creating IAM users

AWS Lambda Introduction

Lambda overview
Explore the AWS Lambda console
The AWS Lambda programming model

Getting Started with AWS Lambda

Create your first AWS Lambda
Triggers for AWS Lambda
Introduction to API Gateway
Add API Gateway as a trigger to Lambda
Introduction to Postman
Test your function with Postman
Monitor your function with CloudWatch
Challenge
Solution

AWS SAM

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

Deploying Your Application

Package with CloudFormation
Deploy to AWS
Test your Lambda application with Postman
See function logs with SAM
Challenge
Solution

Conclusion

Clean up your AWS environment
Next steps