A workshop done @ Murdoch University Dubai for AWS User Group Dubai. It covers the topics of evolution of servers to serverless and beyond. For the workshop we deployed ReactJS application on S3 and created an API on AWS Lambda. End to end the whole architecture uses serverless services

1. Serverless Architecture
for Beginners
AWS UG Dubai - Murdoch Dubai
Hussain Mansoor

2. Hussain Mansoor
AWS Community Builder - Serverless
AWS UG Leader Dubai
BS (Computer Science) - FAST Khi
MS (Software Engineering) - Malaysia & UK
Solutions Architect @ Emirates Airlines
More details @ https://husyn.dev/about.html

3. Contents
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Why Serverless?
Someone else’ Computer
What is Serverless?
Reasons to move away from Servers
Quality Attributes, Business, etc.
Benefits
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2
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4. Why
Serverless?!
Evolution
Continuous Improvement
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5. ENIAC
Hardware
Programming

6. Servers
Low Level
Programming
Data Centers
OS specific
applications

7. Virtual Machines
Shared
Hardware
Apps can be
moved from 1
infra to
another
Infra
(Iaas)

8. Containers
Docker is the
ONLY
requirement!
Platform
(PaaS)

9. Serverless
Only Business
requirements
Function
(FaaS)
& MORE

10. Hardware Maintenance
Dust
Cooling
Wear & Tear
Running Cost
Optimal Utilisation ??
Always over provisioned
Fixed Resources
Can’t change on the fly
Some issues with Servers
Patch Management
OS Updates
Libraries / Tools Updates
Hardening
Security agents
Restrictions
Scalability
Provisioning

11. What is Serverless
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● No Provisioning (OS, HDD,
Network..)
● No Management (Patching,
libraries..)
● Pay for Value / Utility Pricing
● Scaling
● Can’t run Wordpress, Joomla,
MySQL
● Can’t scale with schedule
● No Predictable Cost

12. Storage
● S3
● DynamoDB
● Aurora Serverless
Compute
● Lambda
● Fargate
Services

13. Integration
● SNS
● SQS
● API Gateway
Network?
● CloudFront
Services

14. To Lambda
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Easy, highly-scaled, cheap & reliable service which integrates with
many other AWS services.

15. 0.0000000021
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$0.20 per 1 Million requests
$0.0000166667 for every GB-second
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/

16. Where to learn AWS from?
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AWS Lambda
Foundation
https://portal.tutorialsdojo.
com/product/aws-lambda-
foundations/
AWS Fundamentals
https://www.coursera.org/s
pecializations/aws-
fundamentals
AWS Training &
Certification
https://www.aws.training
Labs & Courses
https://www.qwiklabs.com/cat
alog?cloud%5B%5D=AWS
All AWS services
workshops
https://workshops.aws
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/
channel/UCQnAN556-
_JeXfiQi9SgN_g

17. Let’s do Practical!
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https://bit.ly/3hEsO
Qf

18. 18
Thanks!
WhatsApp Group
Community Day UAE Website
https://awsmena.community/
Meetup Page
https://www.meetup.com/AWS-dubai
Twitter Page
https://twitter.com/awsdxb
Instagram Page
https://www.instagram.com/awsugdubai/
LinkedIn Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/awso
memena/

19. Student Resources
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AWS services to try for free:
Are you a web developer? Try AWS Amplify https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/
Interested in Data Science and Machine Learning? Try Sagemaker Studio
Labs: https://studiolab.sagemaker.aws/
Innovative online learning experiences:
Deep Racer for Students: https://student.deepracer.com/
MLU Explain: https://mlu-explain.github.io/
Cloud Quest: https://cloudquest.skillbuilder.aws/
Free courses:
AWS Educate: https://www.awseducate.com
AWS SkillBuilder: https://explore.skillbuilder.aws
Serverlessland: https://serverlessland.com/
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