AWS Lambda and the Serverless Framework – Hands On Learning!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Instructor Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Objectives/Who Is this Course For

Lecture 3: What Will You Learn in This Course

Lecture 4: AWS Lambda Overview and Scenario

Chapter 2: Code Download

Lecture 1: Code Download

Chapter 3: AWS Lambda & the Serverless Framework – Getting Started

Lecture 1: AWS Lambda Console – Create Your First Lambda Function

Lecture 2: Installing Serverless Framework & Setting up an AWS Profile

Lecture 3: Deploying our First Function with Serverless

Lecture 4: Updating the Function from the CLI

Lecture 5: Fetching the Function Logs from the CLI

Lecture 6: Removing the Function Completely

Lecture 7: Section Summary

Chapter 4: AWS Lambda & Serverless – Deep Dive

Lecture 1: Create AWS Lambda Function Using any Runtime

Lecture 2: YAML Crash Course

Lecture 3: AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework Core Concepts

Lecture 4: Functions Timeout and Memory

Lecture 5: Inheriting Settings from the Provider Property

Lecture 6: IAM Permissions for Lambda Functions

Lecture 7: Environment Variables in AWS Lambda

Lecture 8: VPC for Lambda Functions

Lecture 9: AWS Lambda Pricing

Chapter 5: AWS SAM CLI Setup

Lecture 1: Setting up VS Code and AWS Toolkit

Lecture 2: Installing the AWS CLI

Lecture 3: Setting up AWS Configurations

Lecture 4: Install Docker

Lecture 5: Install AWS SAM CLI

Chapter 6: AWS SAM CLI – Running AWS Lambda Function Locally

Lecture 1: Introduction to AWS SAM

Lecture 2: Creating and Running Our First AWS SAM Application

Lecture 3: Deploy the AWS SAM App to AWS Cloud

Lecture 4: Hosting the API Locally

Lecture 5: Invoking your Lambda Function Directly

Lecture 6: Deleting the Stack

Lecture 7: Section Summary – What We've Done

Chapter 7: Creating AWS SAM Apps Using VSCode & AWS Toolkit

Lecture 1: Creating an AWS SAM Serverless Application in VS Code and AWS Toolkit

Lecture 2: Deploying to AWS Console

Lecture 3: Run and Debug Directly from the Project

Lecture 4: Section Summary

Chapter 8: AWS Step Functions – An Introduction

Lecture 1: Step Functions – Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating our First Step Function

Lecture 3: Adding a Wait State to our State Machine in Step Function

Lecture 4: Wait State in Step Function

Lecture 5: Choice State – Full Example

Lecture 6: The Task State – Step Functions with Lambda Functions

Chapter 9: Step Functions & State Machine Using VS Code

Lecture 1: Creating Step Functions with AWS SAM CLI vs VS Code

Lecture 2: Creating State Machine from Template with VS Code and AWS Toolkit

Lecture 3: Updating a State Machine

Lecture 4: Section Summary

Chapter 10: [Hands-on] – Real World Example Service – 1 – Thumbnail Creation (Python)

Lecture 1: Creating Thumbnail Generator Service – Setup Basics – IAM Roles

Lecture 2: Setup the Thumbnail Generator – Code – Part 1

Lecture 3: Serverless YAML Setup – Configuring S3 and Custom Variables – Deploying the App

Lecture 4: Adding a Layer Dependency to our Function – Debug Session

Lecture 5: Setting up DynamoDB for Saving Thumbnail Metadata

Lecture 6: Saving Thumbnail URLs and Metadata to Database

Lecture 7: Creating a REST API (AWS API Gateway) for Thumbnail Metadata

Lecture 8: Deleting and Updating Items with Postman

Lecture 9: Clean up

Lecture 10: Final Thoughts – Section Summary

Chapter 11: [Hands-on] – Real World Example Service 2 – REST API (Python)

Lecture 1: REST API with Python – Code Walkthrough

Lecture 2: Testing and Debugging the API

Lecture 3: Final Thoughts – Python REST API

Chapter 12: [Hands-on] – Real World Example Service 3 – REST API (NodeJS)

Lecture 1: Getting Started with Todo REST API – NodeJS

Lecture 2: Creating a Todo – API Endpoint – Saving a Todo Through the API End Point

Lecture 3: Listing All Todos – API End Point

Lecture 4: Getting a Single Todo

Lecture 5: Delete a Todo

Lecture 6: Update a Todo

Lecture 7: Clean up

Lecture 8: Next Steps for REST APIs

Chapter 13: [Hands-on] – Real World Example Service 4 – Contact us Form – SES, API Gateway

Lecture 1: Amazon SES Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up the Email Service and Deploying It

Lecture 3: Deploying SES Service and Testing

Lecture 4: Setting up SES the Lambda function and the Front-end & SendEmail

Lecture 5: SES Final Toughts

Chapter 14: [Hands-on] – Real World Example Service 5 – Email Subscription Architecture

Lecture 1: Email Subscription Service – Architecture Walkthrough

Lecture 2: Setting up Our Service – Adding IAM roles for S3 & Uploading the JSON File to S3

Lecture 3: Setting up the getQuotes End Point and Deploying the Service

Lecture 4: Creating a Subscriber API Endpoint

Lecture 5: Finished with Subscriber API EndPoint – What's Next

Lecture 6: SES vs SNS

Lecture 7: Setting up SNS in Serverless YAML and Confirming Email

Lecture 8: Setting up SNS and the Mailer Endpoint

Lecture 9: Using SNS to Publish Messages to Subscribers via the new Endpoint

Lecture 10: Creating the Frontend Form and Sending Messages

Lecture 11: Setting up SendGrid Email API

Lecture 12: Setting up the SendEmail Endpoint

Lecture 13: Set up SendEmail and getSubscriber Endpoints