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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.
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 codeâthe recommended way to develop serverless applications.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Serverless computing with lambdas
- What you should know
- Secure your AWS account
- Basics of IAM
- Creating IAM users
- Lambda overview
- Explore the AWS Lambda console
- The AWS Lambda programming model
- 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
- 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
- Package with CloudFormation
- Deploy to AWS
- Test your Lambda application with Postman
- See function logs with SAM
- Challenge
- Solution
- Clean up your AWS environment
- Next steps
