AWS Lambda

Dive deep with AWS Lambda using a detailed, simple to understand, and hands-on labs rich course. Understand why AWS Lambda is a key service in AWS's serverless and event-driven architectures. Enjoy a very detailed set of hands-on along the theory.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the Course!
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2. Quick Platform Introduction
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3. Resources - Hands-On Labs Code
1. Resources : Hands-On Lab and Code
2. Introduction
3. Software Concepts Critical to Understanding Lambda
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4. Introduction to Serverless
5. AWS Lambda - Let's get started
6. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Dashboard Walkthrough
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7. Lambda Execution Environment
8. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Configuration and Handler
9. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Pricing
10. Execution Environment Lifecycle
11. Lambda Deployment Packages
12. Hands-On Lab : Lambda .ZIP file archive deployment package
13. Hands-On Lab : .ZIP file archive with external dependencies
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14. Lambda Layers and Extensions
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15. Hands-On : Lambda Layers
16. Lambda Triggers
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17. Lambda Permissions - IAM Execution Role & Resource Policy
18. Lambda Invocation using S3 Event Notification (Asynchronous)
19. Hands-On Lab : S3 Event Notification & Lambda Permissions
20. Lambda Poll-based Invocations and Event Source Mapping
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21. Lambda Event Source Mapping and Amazon Kinesis
22. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Event Source Mapping using SQS Queue as an event source
23. Connecting Lambda to Private VPC Subnets/Resources
24. Hands-On Lab : Connecting Lambda functions to VPC resources
25. Lambda Environment Variables
26. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Environment Variables
27. Lambda as a Target to an Application Load Balancer (Synchronous invocations)
28. Hands-On Lab : Invoking Lambda functions using an ALB
29. Hands-On Lab : ALB - Lambda and Multi-Value Headers
30. Lambda Versions and Aliases
31. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Versions and Aliases
32. Lambda Scaling and Concurrency
33. Hands-On Lab : Concurrency
34. Lambda Error Handling - Function Errors
35. Lambda Error Handling - Invocation Errors
36. Lambda Error Handling - Kinesis and SQS
37. Hands-On Lab : Lambda Destinations
38. Hands-On Lab : Dead Letter Queues (DLQs)
39. Lambda Deployment Package - Container Image
40. Lambda@Edge
41. AWS Lambda and CloudFormation
42. Hands-On Lab : Creating Lambda Functions as CloudFormation Resources
43. Hands-On Lab : Creating Lambda Functions using Cross-Account .ZIP Deployment Package
44. Lambda Performance Considerations
45. Lambda Monitoring
1. Next Steps
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About this course

50 lessons
6 hours of video content
Intermediate
Hands-On Labs
Lab Guide

Instructor

Eissa Abousherif

Lead - Consulting, Architecture, Training, and Content Development

A passionate cloud and DevOps architect, consultant, content developer, and trainer with 20+ years of IT experience, holding many industry certificates from AWS, Hashicorp, Azure, and Cisco to name a few. During his career, Eissa led consulting, training, Pre and post-sales activities for projects totaling USD250M+ in TCV across multiple industry verticals. Eissa had the privilege of working for IBM, Cisco and Global knowledge in the USA, Canada, and Dubai. Eissa’s passion is focused on enabling enterprises and professionals to prosper and reach their technology adoption goals. Eissa has authored a number of the highest-rated AWS courses on the internet, both at the associate and professional levels. Moreover, he trained 110,000+ learners from 175+ countries many are leading successful Cloud and DevOps careers today.