Serverless Architectures on AWS

Amazon Web Services via Coursera

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aws-serverless

Syllabus

Week 1: Automation and Authentication

This week, you explore tools and practices that can help you automate tasks that you do in AWS. First, you learn about AWS CloudFormation so you can automate the creation of your infrastructure. Then, you learn about the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). AWS SAM is an extension of CloudFormation you can use to automate both the infrastructure and packaging of your application. You also explore the use of Amazon Cognito for user sign-up and sign-in in an API-based application.

Week 2: Serverless Event Driven Architectures

You start this week with an introduction to event-driven architectures (EDAs). You learn about AWS services that you can use for messaging, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon EventBridge. Finally, you explore how to use AWS Step Functions to help you build applications that implement a workflow.

Overview

A modern software engineer knows how to use the benefits of managed services from Amazon Web Services to reduce the coding needed to get a project across the line. There’s a lot of code you really don’t need to write when you can use a managed service for your applications. Less code means less tests, less bugs, and quicker delivery. In this course, we get hands on with automation tools and serverless managed services. Get your projects completed faster without needing to maintain the underlyi

Skills

Reviews

Excellent overview of the main tools AWS provides!

Great content presented by really nice instructors. Videos and Labs were very practical and to the point. There is lot to learn and do in this course.

I like the quizzes, the labs, and the instructors are great!

Very informative and easy to follow! Great content