Learning Amazon Web Services Lambda

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.

Introduction

• Serverless computing with Lambda
• What you should know

1. Getting Started with AWS

• Secure your AWS account
• Basics of IAM
• Creating IAM users

2. AWS Lambda Introduction

• Lambda overview
• Explore the AWS Lambda console
• The AWS Lambda programming model

3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

• Create your first AWS Lambda
• AWS Lambda function triggers
• Introduction to API Gateway
• Add API Gateway as a trigger to Lambda
• Test your function with Postman
• Monitor your function with CloudWatch metrics
• Adding CloudWatch Logs
• Challenge
• Solution

4. AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)

• Introduction to AWS SAM
• Why infrastructure as code is so important
• Install and configure AWS SAM
• Create an AWS SAM project
• Lambda functions with AWS SAM
• Create your function and API gateway with SAM

5. Deploying Your Application to the Cloud

• Deploy your AWS SAM project to the cloud
• Run and test your function in the cloud
• See function logs with SAM
• Challenge
• Solution

Conclusion

• Clean up your AWS environment
• Next steps