Cloud-Native Development on AWS

Serverless is easy in a demo and hard in production. The first Lambda function runs in five minutes; the trouble starts with retries, duplicates, limits, cost and observability. This workshop takes you from a working example to a solution you can trust under load.

Who it is for

A workshop for teams that want to build serverless applications on AWS deliberately — with a focus on reliability, cost and maintainability, not just a “working example”. It works equally well for a first serverless project and for cleaning up a solution that has already reached production and started causing trouble.

How we run it

Each module pairs a short introduction with an exercise on a live AWS environment — you write code, you do not just listen. You work on a realistic case that we grow throughout the workshop: from the first Lambda function and API contract, through queues and events, to idempotency, dead-letter queues and a deployment pipeline.

What you take away

• The ability to design Lambda functions and API Gateway contracts deliberately, accounting for limits and the execution model
• A method for choosing SQS, SNS or EventBridge for a specific integration problem, rather than using one for everything
• Idempotent flows with retries and dead-letter queues that do not lose or duplicate events
• The ability to diagnose production with logs, metrics and tracing (X-Ray)
• A repeatable deployment pipeline driven by infrastructure as code