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The specialization takes approximately 12 hours to complete. This includes both instructional videos and hands-on labs that allow you to apply the concepts learned in real-world scenarios, giving you practical experience with AWS services.

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Once you enroll and your session begins, you will have access to all videos and other resources, including reading items and the course discussion forum. You’ll be able to view and submit practice assessments, and complete required graded assignments to earn a grade and a Course Certificate.

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Application Integration, Serverless and Edge Networking

Application Integration, Serverless and Edge Networking

This course is part of AWS Certified Solutions Architect SAA-C03 with Capstone Labs Specialization

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Design event-driven architectures using AWS services like SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
Implement serverless solutions with AWS Lambda and API Gateway for scalability and cost efficiency.
Optimize performance and delivery with CloudFront and Route 53, and build serverless applications.

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A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Dive into AWS services for building integrated, serverless applications with this comprehensive course. You'll explore Amazon SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and various analytics tools like Kinesis and AWS Glue, allowing you to create efficient, scalable event-driven architectures. Learn how to implement serverless designs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway for event-driven computing, along with cloud-native deployment strategies that ensure agility and cost-efficiency. The course also covers edge networking with Amazon CloudFront and Route 53, improving performance and availability by leveraging AWS's global infrastructure. Through hands-on projects and demos, including building the Ritual Roast serverless web application, you will gain real-world experience with serverless architectures and edge networking. You’ll discover how to design highly available, scalable, and resilient applications with minimal operational overhead, using the latest AWS technologies to simplify your cloud infrastructure. This course is ideal for developers and cloud architects looking to leverage AWS’s serverless and edge services for building modern applications. If you're comfortable with basic cloud concepts and AWS, this intermediate-level course will expand your knowledge of AWS integrations, analytics, serverless architectures, and edge networking. By the end of the course, you will be able to integrate AWS services, build serverless applications using Lambda and API Gateway, design scalable event-driven architectures, and optimize application delivery with CloudFront and Route 53.

In this module, we will introduce you to AWS's application integration services, focusing on Amazon SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. You will learn to set up queues, handle messages, and leverage event-driven architectures to improve your applications’ scalability and responsiveness. The hands-on labs will demonstrate real-world use cases for integrating services with AWS.

What's included

10 videos2 readings1 assignment

10 videosTotal 69 minutes

Introduction to Amazon SQS10 minutes
Amazon SQS Queue Types4 minutes
Amazon SQS Visibility Timeout5 minutes
Amazon SQS Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)6 minutes
Amazon SQS Delay Queue4 minutes
LAB - Amazon SQS Demo6 minutes
Introduction to Amazon SNS9 minutes
Amazon SNS Fanout Scenario6 minutes
Introduction to Amazon EventBridge6 minutes
LAB - Amazon EventBridge Demo12 minutes

2 readingsTotal 20 minutes

Introduction to the Course 'Application Integration, Serverless and Edge Networking'10 minutes
Full Specialization Resource10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes

Application Integration - Assessment15 minutes

In this module, we will delve into AWS's powerful data analytics services, including Kinesis, Glue, Athena, and Redshift. You’ll gain hands-on experience streaming real-time data, performing ETL operations, and running interactive queries for insightful data analysis. Additionally, we’ll explore Amazon QuickSight for visualizing your results with ease.

What's included

10 videos1 assignment

10 videosTotal 73 minutes

Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams8 minutes
Amazon Data Firehose6 minutes
Introduction to AWS Glue6 minutes
Introduction to Amazon Athena7 minutes
LAB - Data Analytics with AWS Glue and Athena14 minutes
Introduction to Amazon QuickSight3 minutes
Introduction to Amazon Redshift15 minutes
Overview of Amazon Redshift Spectrum5 minutes
Introduction to Amazon EMR4 minutes
Introduction to Amazon MSK6 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes

Analytics on AWS - Assessment15 minutes

In this module, we will guide you through building serverless applications on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions. You’ll learn how to design serverless architectures, execute Lambda functions efficiently, and create scalable workflows. The hands-on lab will help you build a complete serverless application that can scale automatically with demand.

What's included

9 videos1 assignment

9 videosTotal 125 minutes

Architectures on AWS Part 119 minutes
Introduction to AWS Lambda9 minutes
AWS Lambda Networking8 minutes
AWS Lambda Concurrency and Throttling7 minutes
AWS Lambda Invocation Methods12 minutes
AWS Lambda Cold and Snap Starts4 minutes
Introduction to API Gateway24 minutes
Introduction to AWS Step Functions8 minutes
LAB - Ritual Roast Coffee Beans Game33 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes

Serverless Architectures on AWS - Assessment15 minutes

In this module, we will explore Amazon CloudFront and Route 53, focusing on optimizing content delivery and managing DNS with advanced routing techniques. You’ll learn how to configure CloudFront distributions for faster content delivery and utilize Route 53 for routing traffic efficiently across regions. We’ll also explore AWS Global Accelerator and Lambda@Edge for further improving application performance.

What's included

22 videos1 assignment

22 videosTotal 156 minutes

Introduction to Amazon CloudFront9 minutes
LAB - Configure CloudFront Distribution12 minutes
LAB - Configure CloudFront Multiple Origins and Behaviors20 minutes
LAB - CloudFront VPC Origins Distribution8 minutes
CloudFront Signed URLs and Signed Cookies3 minutes
Amazon CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC)4 minutes
What is DNS6 minutes
Introduction to Amazon Route5312 minutes
LAB - Register a Domain Name (Optional)6 minutes
LAB - Configure DNS Records (Optional)18 minutes
Amazon Route53 CNAME vs Alias Records4 minutes
LAB - Amazon Route53 Simply Routing Policy7 minutes
LAB - Amazon Route53 Weighted Routing Policy7 minutes
LAB - Amazon Route53 Latency-Based Routing Policy4 minutes
Amazon Route53 Health Checks4 minutes
LAB - Amazon Route53 Failover Routing Policy10 minutes
Amazon Route53 Geolocation Routing Policy3 minutes
Amazon Route53 Geoproximity Routing Policy3 minutes
Amazon Route53 Multi-Value Routing Policy3 minutes
Amazon Route53 Resolver5 minutes
AWS Global Accelerator4 minutes
AWS Lambda@Edge2 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 15 minutes

AWS Networking Part 2 - Amazon CloudFront and Route53 - Assessment15 minutes

In this final capstone project, you’ll apply your knowledge of serverless technologies to create a fully functional web application for Ritual Roast. Using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway, you will build a scalable, event-driven application. By the end of this module, you will have deployed a serverless web app with low-latency content delivery via CloudFront and secure access through IAM roles.

What's included

10 videos1 reading3 assignments

10 videosTotal 66 minutes

Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Setting the Scene21 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - HLD12 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - LLD6 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Configure IAM Roles2 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - DynamoDB Table2 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Lambda Functions4 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - API Gateway4 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Amazon S35 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Amazon CloudFront5 minutes
Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Project Cleanup4 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Conclusion to the Course 'Application Integration, Serverless and Edge Networking'10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes

Capstone Project 3 - Ritual Roast Serverless Application - Assessment15 minutes
Full Course Assessment60 minutes
Full Course Practice Assessment15 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

Application Integration, Serverless, and Edge Networking on AWS is a specialization that introduces learners to the core AWS services for building scalable, event-driven, and serverless architectures. It covers services such as Amazon SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudFront, among others. This specialization is relevant because businesses increasingly adopt serverless and edge computing to optimize their applications, reduce costs, and improve scalability, making these technologies crucial for modern cloud architectures.

This specialization provides hands-on learning about application integration using messaging services, building serverless architectures, and deploying applications at the edge with services like AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, SNS, and CloudFront. You will learn how to integrate components, process real-time data, build APIs, and distribute content globally while leveraging the power of serverless computing for efficiency and cost savings.

After completing this specialization, you will be able to design and implement event-driven applications using services like SQS and EventBridge, build serverless architectures with Lambda and API Gateway, and optimize content delivery using CloudFront. Additionally, you will have the skills to deploy applications that scale automatically, integrate third-party systems, and manage data across distributed environments efficiently.

Basic knowledge of cloud computing, particularly in AWS, will be helpful but is not mandatory. Familiarity with concepts like RESTful APIs, serverless computing, and event-driven architectures will be beneficial for understanding the content more effectively. However, the specialization covers these topics from the ground up, so even beginners can enroll.

This specialization is ideal for developers, cloud architects, and engineers who are looking to gain expertise in serverless computing, application integration, and edge networking on AWS. It's particularly beneficial for those interested in building modern, scalable applications with minimal infrastructure management or preparing for AWS certifications in these domains.