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 lambdas
• 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
• 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

4. AWS SAM

• 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

5. Deploying Your Application

• Package with CloudFormation
• Deploy to AWS
• Test your Lambda application with Postman
• See function logs with SAM
• Challenge
• Solution

Conclusion

• Clean up your AWS environment
• Next steps