Programming Aws With Lambda, Python And Boto3

A Guide to Get You Up and Running

What you'll learn

Understand what AWS Lambda functions are used for and how to use them

Basics of Python

Boto3 Library: a Python Library for Programming AWS

Automating notifications, cost-ops, tests and policies using AWS Lambda

Requirements

One year of experience with AWS

Some experience in python or any other C-based programming language

Description

The use of AWS Lambda Functions with Python and the Boto3 library are one of the most underutilized services that AWS offers and, when combined, are an AWS practitioner's dream tool. We've designed this course for users wanting to gain proficiency without spending so much time on lecture material that they have to go back and constantly review before going forward because the information is so dense.This course will cover all you need to know to actually start using AWS Lambda to develop your own maintainence, operations and development tasks in AWS. You'll learn how to set up and automate tasks that would therwise take a lot of time to do even using the AWS CLI or custom scripts.Boto3 is a Python based library written for the  express purpose of interactive with AWS and, as such, has built-in classes and methods for interacting with virtually every AWS service that exists. AWS Lambda Functions with Python and Boto3 will also give you flexibility and many more options to program complex automation all in one place without the need to use many different tools. We're excited about this topic and know that once you see what AWS lambda can do for you that you will wonder how you ever did without it.

Overview

Section 1: Section 1

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 1.1 AWS Lambda Basics

Lecture 3 1.2 Setting Up a Local Environment

Lecture 4 Course Download

Section 2: Section 2

Lecture 5 2.1 Python Intro

Lecture 6 2.2 Comments, Syntax and Indentation

Lecture 7 2.3 Python Data Types and Casting

Lecture 8 2.4 Python Variable Naming and Scope

Lecture 9 2.5 Comparison Operators and Logical Operators

Lecture 10 2.6 Python Conditionals if….elif….else

Lecture 11 2.7 Traversing JSON with Python *IMPORTANT*

Lecture 12 2.8 Python - Working with Date and Time

Section 3: Section 3 - Basics of Lambda, Python and Boto3

Lecture 13 3.1 Basics of Boto3 - Local and Remote Function Setup

Lecture 14 3.2 Python/Boto3 Functions, Permissions and Troubeshooting

Lecture 15 3.3 Documentation

Lecture 16 3.4 Lamda Functions, Settings and Timeouts

Section 4: Section 4

Lecture 17 4.2 Iterating through Collections with Boto3

Lecture 18 4.3 Boto3 Common Operations - Tagging Resources and S3 Differences

Lecture 19 4.1

Lecture 20 4.4 How to Use the Boto3 Documentation

Lecture 21 4.5 EC2- Starting/Stopping Instances Programmatically

Lecture 22 4.6 EC2 - Automating Starts and Stops

Lecture 23 4.7 Live EventBridge Rule Demonstration

Lecture 24 4.8 RDS - Add Delete Flags to Older Instances with Low Average Connections

Lecture 25 4.9 RDS - Delete Instances with Delete Flags

Lecture 26 4.10 SNS - Setting Up a Topic

Lecture 27 4.10 - Lambda Function that Publishes to SNS Topic

This course is designed to teach AWS DevOps engineers how to leverage AWS Lambda functions using Python's Boto3 library to speed operations tasks in their AWS account(s)