Discover scalable serverless architectures with confidence

Explore how AWS Lambda supports scalable serverless architectures by examining design principles, performance optimisation, storage options, concurrency controls, API management, security considerations, testing strategies, and cost-aware practices for reliable cloud applications.

Optimise serverless applications for performance and scale

Discover how serverless best practices, testing approaches, API throttling, concurrency management, and performance-cost trade-offs support scalable, resilient, and efficient cloud applications.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

Syllabus

Week 1
Scaling Serverless Architectures
- Scaling Serverless Architectures
  In this activity, you will learn to scale serverless architectures by optimizing AWS Lambda performance, comparing state storage, managing concurrency and API throttling, and applying comprehensive testing strategies.

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Compare Lambda based architectures with traditional cloud architectures with respect to how and what you measure to ensure that your solution can handle its traffic.
List design best practices to optimize the speed with which Lambda functions run, with both a cold and warm start.
Compare storage options for persisting resource and application state.
Identify how to regulate access to your solution and where it is applied.
Describe the considerations for using usage patterns, API throttling, API keys, Lambda concurrency controls, and HTTP status codes.
Identify performance-related design trade-offs, and the pros and cons of each for APIs, Lambda functions, and data stores.
Summarize serverless testing strategies as they relate to mocking, unit tests, function design, effectively testing to scale, and integration testing.
Highlight iterative modifications that you can make for optimizing your application's performance and costs over time.

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for Experienced developers and cloud architects who are familiar with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud and serverless technologies

Who developed the course?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive cloud, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and scale more efficiently.

What's included?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

Unlimited access to this course

Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes

A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible

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