Free online courseServerless Web Application on AWS

Course Description

Learn how to design, build, and deploy a fully serverless web application on AWS with an architecture that mirrors how modern production projects are shipped. This course guides you through the end-to-end journey of turning a simple idea into a fast, secure, and scalable website that runs without managing servers—while still covering the real decisions that separate a demo from a reliable solution.

You will start by understanding which AWS services fit a serverless web application and why. From there, you will build a static front end hosted on S3 and delivered globally through CloudFront for performance, caching, and HTTPS support on a custom domain. Along the way, you will work through common setup pitfalls that affect domain routing and distribution configuration, helping you gain confidence in diagnosing issues instead of guessing.

To power the application behind the scenes, you will add a backend that can handle CRUD-style interactions and a view-count feature using DynamoDB for storage and AWS Lambda for compute. You will also focus on the security foundations that make serverless viable in real environments, including the role of IAM permissions, least-privilege access, and how services are allowed to talk to each other safely.

By the end, you will have a working serverless website with a functional data layer, tested integrations, and a deployment approach you can reuse for personal projects, portfolios, and cloud engineering work. If you want hands-on practice with core AWS building blocks—S3, CloudFront, Route 53, DynamoDB, and Lambda—this course provides a practical path to shipping a complete solution.