This course is part of the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Professional Certificate
Designing a Serverless Architecture with Event-Driven Microservices
Probe how serverless services and event-driven microservices can support scalable and loosely coupled AWS architecture.
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Designing a Serverless Architecture with Event-Driven Microservices
Design responsive serverless architectures on AWS
Modern cloud applications increasingly rely on architectures that can respond quickly to events, scale automatically, and reduce the need to manage underlying infrastructure.
On this course, you’ll explore how serverless services and event-driven microservices can be combined to create flexible AWS solutions.
You’ll examine the architectural principles behind loosely coupled systems and consider how services communicate through events, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
Explore serverless architecture patterns
Discover how serverless computing changes the way applications are designed and operated.
You’ll examine the role of services such as AWS Lambda and consider how event-based processing can support workloads that need to respond dynamically to changing demand.
Connect microservices through events and APIs
Explore how independent services can communicate without being tightly dependent on one another.
You’ll consider the role of APIs, messaging, and event services such as Amazon API Gateway and Amazon EventBridge in coordinating distributed application components.
Design for resilience and scalability
Evaluate how event-driven patterns can improve flexibility, fault isolation, and scalability across cloud applications.
You’ll consider trade-offs around reliability, observability, performance, and complexity when designing distributed serverless systems.
By the end, you’ll have a stronger understanding of how serverless and event-driven design patterns can support modern AWS applications and be better prepared to assess when these approaches suit real-world architecture requirements.
Syllabus
Week 1
AWS Solutions Architect - Designing a Serverless Architecture with Event-Driven Microservices
Week Overview
Understand the course structure and begin exploring AWS Solutions Architect practices. Review key architecture concepts and learn how to gather customer requirements to guide effective AWS solution design.
Designing a Serverless Architecture
Explore serverless architecture, event-driven design, and microservices. Learn how Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway support scalable solutions, and compare serverless with EC2 and container-based architectures.
Decoupling Microservices with AWS Messaging Services
Learn to decouple microservices using AWS messaging services. Explore Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS to build reliable, scalable, and loosely coupled applications that improve communication between distributed services.
Securing Serverless Architectures
Learn to secure serverless architectures using Amazon Cognito, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda. Explore identity, access control, data protection, auditing, traceability, and security automation for serverless applications.
Orchestrating Workflows
Learn to orchestrate serverless workflows using AWS Step Functions. Explore workflow coordination and apply these concepts to design reliable, scalable serverless architectures through a sample architecture.
Observability
Explore observability in serverless architectures using Amazon CloudWatch Logs and AWS X-Ray. Learn how monitoring, logging, and tracing help identify issues, understand application performance, and improve reliability.
Putting It All Together
Apply serverless architecture concepts by reviewing a proof of concept, completing a design quiz, and recapping key principles for building scalable, secure, reliable, and event-driven AWS solutions.
Event Driven Architecture with Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda
In this activity, you will build an event-driven architecture by creating a HTTP API and WebSocket endpoint with API Gateway to trigger EventBridge rules and invoke AWS Lambda functions.
Build a Serverless Architecture with Amazon Simple Notification Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and AWS Lambda
In this activity, you will learn resource decoupling by configuring S3 event notifications, SNS topics, SQS queues, and Lambda functions to process object uploads and monitor workflows via CloudWatch Logs.
Lab - Monitoring Micro-Service Architectures with AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch
In this activity, you will use AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch to enable application tracing, map service dependencies, and visualize end-to-end requests to monitor usage.
Week 2
AWS Solutions Architect - Designing a Data-Driven Architecture
Designing a Data-Driven Architecture
Explore data-driven architecture by gathering customer requirements and comparing data lakes, lake houses, and traditional warehouses. Learn how to select the right approach for scalable and effective AWS data solutions.
Data processing Foundations and Infrastructure
Explore data processing foundations using AWS analytics services. Learn about data pipelines, streaming, data lakes, AWS Lake Formation, and AWS Glue to build scalable and efficient data processing architectures.
Analytics And Visualization
Learn to query and visualize data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. Explore Parquet data, build visualizations, map data fields, and apply analytics concepts to design effective data-driven AWS architectures.
AWS Solutions Architect - Summary and Resources
In this activity, wrap up your AWS Solutions Architect learning journey by reviewing key summary materials, accessing additional study resources, exploring recommended next steps & finding support contact options.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify key serverless services, such as AWS Lambda, and their role in event-based processing.
- Describe how Amazon API Gateway and Amazon EventBridge coordinate communication between decoupled microservices.
- Summarise the core principles of loosely coupled, event-driven application architectures.
- Explain how event-driven design patterns improve system scalability, flexibility, and fault isolation.
- Explore architectural trade-offs related to performance, observability, reliability, and complexity in serverless systems.
Who is the course for?
This course is for learners with existing AWS architecture knowledge who want to explore serverless systems, event-driven design, and microservices. It is suited to aspiring solutions architects, cloud engineers, and technical professionals.
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.
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