Building Serverless Applications with an Event-Driven Architecture

This lab demonstrates how to design and develop applications based on an event-driven architecture with a serverless stack. The key services used in this lab are AWS Step Functions, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Rekognition.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Understand an event-driven architecture
• Understand how Step Functions is configured to orchestrate serverless applications
• Take advantage of Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS
• Create and configure Lambda functions and API Gateway resources
• Made configuration updates to restore API functionality

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Access to a notebook computer with Wi-Fi and Microsoft Windows, macOS, or Linux (Ubuntu, SuSE, or Red Hat)
• For Microsoft Windows users: Administrator access to the computer
• An internet browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer 9 (previous versions of Internet Explorer are not supported)
  
  

Course Outline

• Task 1: Understanding the architecture and underlying services
• Task 2: Setting up a Lambda function to generate presigned URLs
• Task 3: Creating a presigned API resource
• Task 4: Uploading sample images
• Task 5: Subscribing to user approval email notification
• Task 6: Making the digital album
• Task 7: Setting up the book printing state machine