Advanced Developing on AWS

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Experienced software developers who are already familiar with AWS services

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
• Working knowledge of core AWS services and public cloud implementation
• Completion of the Developing on AWS classroom training , and then a minimum of 6 months of application of those concepts in a real world environment

Day One

Module 1: The cloud journey

• Common off-cloud architecture
• Introduction to Cloud Air
• Monolithic architecture
• Migration to the cloud
• Guardrails
• The six R’s of migration
• The Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
• Architectural styles and patterns
• Overview of AWS Services
• Interfacing with AWS Services
• Authentication
• Infrastructure as code and Elastic Beanstalk
• Demonstration: Walk through creating base infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation in the AWS console
• Hands-on lab 1: Deploy your monolith application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Module 2: Gaining Agility

• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Application configuration
• Secrets management
• CI/CD Services in AWS
• Demonstration: Demo AWS Secrets Manager

Day Two

Module 3: Monolith to MicroServices

• Microservices
• Serverless
• A look at Cloud Air
• Microservices using Lambda and API Gateway
• SAM
• Strangling the Monolith
• Hands-on lab: Using AWS Lambda to develop microservices

Module 4: Polyglot Persistence & Distributed Complexity

• Polyglot persistence
• DynamoDB best practices
• Distributed complexity
• Steps functions

Day Three

Module 5: Resilience and Scale

• Decentralized data stores
• Amazon SQS
• Amazon SNS
• Amazon Kinesis Streams
• AWS IoT Message Broker
• Serverless event bus
• Event sourcing and CQRS
• Designing for resilience in the cloud
• Hands-on lab: Exploring the AWS messaging options

Module 6: Security and Observability

• Serverless Compute with AWS Lambda
• Authentication with Amazon Cognito
• Debugging and traceability
• Hands-on lab: Developing microservices on AWS