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Serverless Computing on AWS for Developers

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Duration: Up to 1 hour

Introduction to the AWS CLI

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.During this lab, you will learn how to install and configure the AWS CLI, plus leverage the built-in help tool. 

Duration: 13 minutes and 4 seconds

What Is Serverless Computing?

This lesson explores what serverless computing is and how using the computing resource as a service differs from traditional computing models.

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Introduction to the Serverless Framework

In this lab, you will understand the core components of the Serverless framework, and you will use them to deploy a simple microservice with a single function on AWS.

Duration: 35 minutes and 21 seconds

Understanding AWS Lambda to Run and Scale Your Code

This Lesson will provide an overview of AWS Lambda and how to get started using the service.

Duration: Up to 15 minutes

Knowledge Check: Understanding AWS Lambda

Knowledge Check: Understanding AWS Lambda

Duration: 38 minutes and 30 seconds

Using Serverless Functions

This lesson explores some of the common use cases for serverless functions and shows how to implement serverless functions in a simple application.

Duration: Up to 45 minutes

Introduction to AWS Lambda

Learn how to create and run your first AWS Lambda function.

Overview

This course includes everything you need to know to get started developing serverless applications using AWS services.

We start with an introduction to AWS CLI, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and using serverless functions. We then get into more advanced API Gateway functionality, as well as databases and containers. Throughout, we provide a lot of labs to give you the hands-on experience you need to develop serverless applications on AWS.

Labs are the best way to understand the benefits of Lambda. The best way to learn how to use it is to get your hands dirty trying it out for yourself! The labs extend your knowledge and understanding and show you how to get the most benefit from Lambda functions in processing day to day tasks.

Updates

May 9, 2018 - Added Course Exam
September 21st 2018 - Added Course 'Serverless Security: Comparing FaaS to IaaS'

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Andrew is fanatical about helping business teams gain the maximum ROI possible from adopting, using, and optimizing Public Cloud Services. Having built 70+ Cloud Academy courses, Andrew has helped over 50,000 students master cloud computing by sharing the skills and experiences he gained during 20+ years leading digital teams in code and consulting. Before joining Cloud Academy, Andrew worked for AWS and for AWS technology partners Ooyala and Adobe.

Covered Topics

Amazon Web Services

Development for AWS

Compute for AWS