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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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May 2026

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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 videos•Total 69 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon SQS•10 minutes
  • Amazon SQS Queue Types•4 minutes
  • Amazon SQS Visibility Timeout•5 minutes
  • Amazon SQS Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)•6 minutes
  • Amazon SQS Delay Queue•4 minutes
  • LAB - Amazon SQS Demo•6 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon SNS•9 minutes
  • Amazon SNS Fanout Scenario•6 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon EventBridge•6 minutes
  • LAB - Amazon EventBridge Demo•12 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
  • Introduction to the Course 'Application Integration, Serverless and Edge Networking'•10 minutes
  • Full Specialization Resource•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
  • Application Integration - Assessment•15 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 videos•Total 73 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams•8 minutes
  • Amazon Data Firehose•6 minutes
  • Introduction to AWS Glue•6 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon Athena•7 minutes
  • LAB - Data Analytics with AWS Glue and Athena•14 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon QuickSight•3 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon Redshift•15 minutes
  • Overview of Amazon Redshift Spectrum•5 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon EMR•4 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon MSK•6 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
  • Analytics on AWS - Assessment•15 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 videos•Total 125 minutes
  • Architectures on AWS Part 1•19 minutes
  • Introduction to AWS Lambda•9 minutes
  • AWS Lambda Networking•8 minutes
  • AWS Lambda Concurrency and Throttling•7 minutes
  • AWS Lambda Invocation Methods•12 minutes
  • AWS Lambda Cold and Snap Starts•4 minutes
  • Introduction to API Gateway•24 minutes
  • Introduction to AWS Step Functions•8 minutes
  • LAB - Ritual Roast Coffee Beans Game•33 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
  • Serverless Architectures on AWS - Assessment•15 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 videos•Total 156 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon CloudFront•9 minutes
  • LAB - Configure CloudFront Distribution•12 minutes
  • LAB - Configure CloudFront Multiple Origins and Behaviors•20 minutes
  • LAB - CloudFront VPC Origins Distribution•8 minutes
  • CloudFront Signed URLs and Signed Cookies•3 minutes
  • Amazon CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC)•4 minutes
  • What is DNS•6 minutes
  • Introduction to Amazon Route53•12 minutes
  • LAB - Register a Domain Name (Optional)•6 minutes
  • LAB - Configure DNS Records (Optional)•18 minutes
  • Amazon Route53 CNAME vs Alias Records•4 minutes
  • LAB - Amazon Route53 Simply Routing Policy•7 minutes
  • LAB - Amazon Route53 Weighted Routing Policy•7 minutes
  • LAB - Amazon Route53 Latency-Based Routing Policy•4 minutes
  • Amazon Route53 Health Checks•4 minutes
  • LAB - Amazon Route53 Failover Routing Policy•10 minutes
  • Amazon Route53 Geolocation Routing Policy•3 minutes
  • Amazon Route53 Geoproximity Routing Policy•3 minutes
  • Amazon Route53 Multi-Value Routing Policy•3 minutes
  • Amazon Route53 Resolver•5 minutes
  • AWS Global Accelerator•4 minutes
  • AWS Lambda@Edge•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
  • AWS Networking Part 2 - Amazon CloudFront and Route53 - Assessment•15 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 videos•Total 66 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Setting the Scene•21 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - HLD•12 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - LLD•6 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Configure IAM Roles•2 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - DynamoDB Table•2 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Lambda Functions•4 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - API Gateway•4 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Amazon S3•5 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Amazon CloudFront•5 minutes
  • Ritual Roast Web App V3 - Project Cleanup•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
  • Conclusion to the Course 'Application Integration, Serverless and Edge Networking'•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 90 minutes
  • Capstone Project 3 - Ritual Roast Serverless Application - Assessment•15 minutes
  • Full Course Assessment•60 minutes
  • Full Course Practice Assessment•15 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.

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.

Yes, you can preview the first video and view the syllabus before you enroll. You must purchase the course to access content not included in the preview.

If you decide to enroll in the course before the session start date, you will have access to all of the lecture videos and readings for the course. You’ll be able to submit assignments once the session starts.

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.

If you complete the course successfully, your electronic Course Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Course Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.

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