This course is all about learning and mastering one of the most popular services of Amazon Cloud- AWS Lambda. It is a highly demanded skill among Cloud professionals, specially those who are working on AWS Cloud platform. With AWS Lambda, you can create a Serverless Applications in a matter for few steps. You can choose any of the programming languages available to create a Lambda application. This allows you create an added functionalities for exiting mobile, web, desktop, or an Iot Application without making any change to the source code of the existing application. This way you can develop a new functionality without risking any downtime or experimenting with the successfully running app. Push Notifications are one such examples, that can be considered a serverless application. You can create a lot more functionalities with Amazon Lambda.
In this course, you will learn AWS Lambda right from the beginning, covering the following Lambda functionalities:
Handler function
Event object
Context object
Callback function
Working with logs, etc
In the following sections, you will learn some of the popular services and tools available on AWS, that could be integrated with AWS Lambda. These services will be covered in brief:
AWS CLI (Command Line Interface)
Amazon S3
Glacier
Elastic Block Storage
Elastic File System
Storage Gateway
EC2
Elastic Beanstalk
Container Services
VPC and Lightsail
DynamoDB
Elasticache
RDS
Redshift
EMR (Elastic Map Reduce)
Amazon Kinesis
After learning these tools and services, you will learn by two real life example projects on AWS Lambda. These projects will demonstrate step by step how you could develop and deploy you Lambda applications.
Project-1: Lambda function with API Gateway
Creating a Lambda function
Connecting with API Gateway as Trigger
Passing Information through API Gateway
Project-2: Lambda function with DynamoDB
Writing data to DynamoDB
Reading data from DynamoDB