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AWS Fundamentals: Building Serverless Applications

Coursera partnered with Amazon Web Services to create this class straight from the source. AWS serverless architecture is booming. Who better to learn it from than the people at AWS? The course will introduce the serverless framework, teach students how to use essential tools and develop proficiency in creating serverless functions and solutions.

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Created by: Rick Hurst

Produced in 2019

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Overall Score : 80 / 100

Course Description

AWS Awards Best Free Course

This course will introduce you to Amazon Web Services (AWS) serverless architecture. Through demonstrations and hands-on exercises you'll learn skills in building and deploying serverless solutions. Using real-world examples of a serverless website and chat bot, you'll build upon your existing knowledge of the AWS cloud to take advantage of the benefits of modern architectures for greater agility, innovation, and lower total cost of ownership across a range of AWS services, including AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Lex. In this course, you'll have the option to complete hands-on exercises. We strongly suggest you take advantage of the AWS Free Tier to follow the lab exercises provided by throughout the course. Be aware that any services used outside of the free tier may result in you incurring charges through your AWS account. Class forums will also allow you to ask questions and interact with AWS training instructors. After completing this course, you'll have the knowledge and skills to build serverless solutions on AWS. This course has been developed by AWS, and is delivered by AWS technical instructors who teach cloud computing courses around the globe.

Beginner Level

Time: 3h

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- Course is taught by the best AWS experts in the world.
- The hands-on learning is efficient and effective.
- Covers deep topics but is still accessible to beginners.
- Itâs a rare problem for a computer science course to overemphasize practical skills and undervalue theory, but here we are.
- Course is too short for the complex topics covered.
- Course has multiple instructors which can lead to an uneven learning experience.

Instructor Details

Rick Hurst

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AWS Technical Architect, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rick has been with AWS for almost 3 years, and is an Ex AWS Senior Technical Trainer. As Technical Architect he works broadly with various leaders in the curriculum teams to facilitate technical training material, such as labs, code exercises, and bootcamps, while ensuring our courses are scoped appropriately for the respective audiences. Prior to AWS Rick was a freelance technical trainer and FullStack software developer, where he created and produced videos and screencasts, created custom technical curriculum, developed software, and specialized in online live coaching along with in-person custom software training to the Enterprise. Outside of AWS, Rick spends the rest of this time developing software applications for fun, playing guitar, or immersed in his Oculus Rift.