Amazon DynamoDB: Building a Serverless Web Application

This lab walks you through building a serverless application using Amazon DynamoDB.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create and deploy Lambda functions written in Python to perform operations on a DynamoDB table

• Leverage DynamoDB conditional expressions

• Create and deploy API Gateway endpoints to proxy Lambda functions

• Create and configure Amazon Cognito user pools for authentication

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Developers

Prerequisites

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

• Familiar with navigating the AWS Management Console
• Editing scripts using an integrated development environment (IDE)
• Implementing basic Python scripts to perform CRUD operations with DynamoDB
• Basic understanding of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Lambda, and Amazon API Gateway services.

Course Outline

• Task 1: Deploying the music application

• Task 2: Creating and managing a DynamoDB table

• Task 3: Developing AWS Lambda functions

• Task 4: Creating, configuring, and deploying an API using AWS API Gateway

• Task 5: Integrating the backend with the music application

• Task 6: Challenge activity -- adding authentication via Amazon Cognito