Serverless Architectures using Amazon CloudWatch Events and Scheduled Events with AWS Lambda

This is a two part lab. In part one of the lab, you learn how to use a Lambda function with CloudWatch events to monitor the creation of an EC2 instance, using a Lambda function you create manually. In part two of the lab, you create a Lambda function from a blueprint to alert you to a CloudWatch alarm, with notification through an Amazon SNS topic. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with basic CloudWatch and SNS concepts. Node.js and Python programming are required, although full solution code is provided. You should have at a minimum taken the “Introduction to AWS Lambda” lab.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create an AWS Lambda function
• Configure Amazon CloudWatch Events
• Configure an Amazon CloudWatch Alarm
• Configure Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to send notifications

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers
• Infrastructure Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with Amazon EC2
• Node.js programming is required, although full solution code is provided

Course Outline

• Task 1: Create an AWS Lambda function
• Task 2: Create an Amazon CloudWatch Events Rule
• Task 3: Test The Amazon CloudWatch Events Rule and Lambda Function
• Task 4: Create a Website Checker Lambda Function
• Task 5: Configure Amazon SNS
• Task 6: Create an Amazon CloudWatch Alarm