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.
Overview
Syllabus
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
Taught by
Marcia Villalba
