In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to use the AWS Lambda service to run code without managing infrastructure. We will deploy a simple serverless application and use it to explore Lambda functions' behavior, and how to safely update to your functions.

You will learn most from this workshop if you have built Lambda functions as experimentations or for learning, or if you already have functions in production and want to learn more about that service.

This workshop uses Python for creating Lambda function, and AWS SAM to define infrastructure. While knowledge of Python is not necessary to complete this workshop, knowing how to create functions and some of the core libraries will help understand what those functions do. Similarly, you don't need to know AWS CloudFormation or AWS SAM, but some knowledge will help.

This workshop is designed to teach you the following:

How to build and deploy AWS Lambda functions using infrastructure as code
How Lambda functions scale
How to use concurrency controls for Lambda functions
How to do safe and progessive deployments for Lambda functions