Case Study: Building a Serverless API — Roadmap Step & Resources
Designing and deploying a complete API using Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: AWS Cloud Engineer
Before this step
Mini projects
- Build and deploy a fully serverless REST API backed by DynamoDB
Study resources
- Building a Serverless Web Application (Article) — AWS's own official whitepaper on serverless multi-tier architectures.
- AWS Lambda Explained (Video) — A practical tutorial directly applicable to building a serverless API.
- Serverless apps using Azure Functions (Article) — Microsoft's own official documentation, the primary reference for this serverless case study.
- Azure Functions Explained (Video) — A practical tutorial directly applicable to building a serverless API on Azure.
- Cloud Functions Documentation (Article) — Google Cloud's own official documentation, the primary reference for this serverless case study.
- AWS Skill Builder (Article) — AWS's own official, free digital training platform with hands-on labs and courses for this exact topic area.
- Microsoft Learn Training (Article) — Microsoft's own official, free training platform with hands-on modules for this exact topic area.
- Google Cloud Skills Boost (Article) — Google Cloud's own official, free training platform with hands-on labs for this exact topic area.
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- Certifications, Career and Capstone — section
- AWS Cloud Engineer roadmap — the full learning path