Serverless and Microservices for AWS

Learn how to build serverless microservices architectures with Amazon Web Services.

The benefit of serverless architectures are well-defined. Serverless helps developers focus on what they do best—building solutions—without the difficulty of managing and scaling infrastructure. However, when it comes to implementation, the instructions are much less clear. In this course, developer and AWS Community Hero Aileen Smith explores both the how and the why of serverless microservices architectures in AWS. Learn how to leverage Lambda functions and Elastic Container Service (ECS) components, choose the right integration technology, configure an API for access, and coordinate serverless workflows with Step Functions. Aileen also shows how to transition an existing application to serverless and solve common deployment and management challenges.

Introduction

• Why serverless? Why microservices?
• What you should know

1. Serverless on AWS

• Serverless and microservices in action
• Serverless landscape on AWS
• How to choose a serverless technology

2. A Quick Intro to Microservices

• What is a microservice?
• When should you use microservices?

3. Building Serverless Components on AWS

• Serverless architectures on AWS
• Hybrid architectures
• Serverless compute
• AWS connecting the dots, part I
• AWS connecting the dots, part 2
• The importance of APIs
• Serverless machine learning
• Orchestration
• All the serverless pieces in action

4. Transitioning an Existing Application

• Decomposing the monolith
• The transition period

5. Managing Serverless in the AWS World

• Deployment strategies
• Development challenges and solutions
• Operational challenges and solutions

Conclusion

• Next steps