Troubleshooting Serverless Applications

This lab demonstrates how to troubleshoot applications that are built with serverless event-driven architectures. The key services used in this lab are AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, AWS X-Ray, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon API Gateway.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Understand an event-driven architecture
• Enable and use AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch
• Understand how AWS Step Functions is configured to orchestrate serverless applications
• Take advantage of Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and dead-letter queues
• Understand how to troubleshoot serverless architectures
• Make configuration updates to restore API functionality

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

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

• Access to a notebook computer with Wi-Fi and Microsoft Windows, macOS X, or Linux (Ubuntu, SuSE, or Red Hat)
• The lab environment is not accessible using an iPad or tablet device, but you can use these devices to access the student guide.
• For Microsoft Windows users: Administrator access to the computer
• An internet browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer 9 (previous versions of Internet Explorer are not supported)

Course Outline

• Task 1: Launch Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray
• Task 2: Enable AWS X-Ray
• Task 3: Upload images
• Task 4: Fix application errors