AWS Building Serverless Applications Week 3 INTRODUCTION
Learning Objectives
Utilize the AWS Lambda service to build a serverless compute backend for your application.
Use AWS IAM to manage resource access.
Store data with Amazon DynamoDB as a serverless backend data storage solution.
PRACTICE QUIZ: IAM
1. IAM roles provide authentication to login to your application.
True
False (CORRECT)
Correct: “IAM roles are types of permissions provided to users and services to access AWS resources securely.”
2. IAM Roles are associated with a specific user or group.
True
False (CORRECT)
Correct: The IAM video in this module may be referenced, and that will then skip ahead to 1:55 for the IAM services.
PRACTICE QUIZ: AMAZON LAMBDA
1. What is AWS Lambda?
A fully managed data analytics service
A queuing service that automatically scales up and down.
An event-driven, serverless computing platform that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources required by that code. (CORRECT)
PRACTICE QUIZ: AMAZON DYNAMODB
1. Amazon DynamoDB is what type of database solution?
Relational, SQL database
Non-relational, NoSQL database (CORRECT)
2. Select the two things that need to be provided when you are creating a table in DynamoDb.