Day 1

Module 0: Introduction

• • Introduction to the application you will build
• • Access to course resources (Student Guide, Lab Guide, and Online Course Supplement)

Module 1: Thinking Serverless

• • Best practices for building modern serverless applications
• • Event-driven design
• • AWS services that support event-driven serverless applications

Module 2: API-Driven Development and Synchronous Event Sources

• • Characteristics of standard request/response API-based web applications
• • How Amazon API Gateway fits into serverless applications
• • Try-it-out exercise: Set up an HTTP API endpoint integrated with a Lambda function
• • High-level comparison of API types (REST/HTTP, WebSocket, GraphQL)

Module 3: Introduction to Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control

• • Authentication vs. Authorization
• • Options for authenticating to APIs using API Gateway
• • Amazon Cognito in serverless applications
• • Amazon Cognito user pools vs. federated identities

Module 4: Serverless Deployment Frameworks

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

Module 5: Using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon SNS to Decouple Components

• • Development considerations when using asynchronous event sources
• • Features and use cases of Amazon EventBridge
• • Try-it-out exercise: Build a custom EventBridge bus and rule
• • Comparison of use cases for Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) vs. EventBridge
• • Try-it-out exercise: Configure an Amazon SNS topic with filtering

Module 6: Event-Driven Development Using Queues and Streams

• • Development considerations when using polling event sources to trigger Lambda functions
• • Distinctions between queues and streams as event sources for Lambda
• • Selecting appropriate configurations when using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) or Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as an event source for Lambda
• • Try-it-out exercise: Configure an Amazon SQS queue with a dead-letter queue as a Lambda event source

Hands-On Labs Day 1

• • Hands-On Lab 1: Deploying a Simple Serverless Application
• • Hands-On Lab 2: Message Fan-Out with Amazon EventBridge

Day 2

Module 7: Writing Good Lambda Functions

• • How the Lambda lifecycle influences your function code
• • Best practices for your Lambda functions
• • Configuring a function
• • Function code, versions and aliases
• • Try-it-out exercise: Configure and test a Lambda function
• • Lambda error handling
• • Handling partial failures with queues and streams

Module 8: Step Functions for Orchestration

• • AWS Step Functions in serverless architectures
• • Try-it-out exercise: Step Functions states
• • The callback pattern
• • Standard vs. Express Workflows
• • Step Functions direct integrations
• • Try-it-out exercise: Troubleshooting a Standard Step Functions workflow

Module 9: Observability and Monitoring

• • The three pillars of observability
• • Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Logs Insights
• • Writing effective log files
• • Try-it-out exercise: Interpreting logs
• • Using AWS X-Ray for observability
• • Try-it-out exercise: Enable X-Ray and interpret X-Ray traces
• • CloudWatch metrics and embedded metrics format
• • Try-it-out exercise: Metrics and alarms
• • Try-it-out exercise: ServiceLens

Hands-On Labs Day 2

• • Hands-On Lab 3: Workflow Orchestration Using AWS Step Functions
• • Hands-On Lab 4: Observability and Monitoring

Day 3

Module 10: Serverless Application Security

• • Security best practices for serverless applications
• • Applying security at all layers
• • API Gateway and application security
• • Lambda and application security
• • Protecting data in your serverless data stores
• • Auditing and traceability

Module 11: Handling Scale in Serverless Applications

• • Scaling considerations for serverless applications
• • Using API Gateway to manage scale
• • Lambda concurrency scaling
• • How different event sources scale with Lambda

Module 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
• • Course wrap-up

Hands-On Labs Day 3

• • Hands-On Lab 5: Securing Serverless Applications
• • Hands-On Lab 6: Serverless CI/CD on AWS