This course helps you to evaluate when to go serverless using technologies such as AWS Lambda and when a more traditional architecture using Amazon EC2 instances may make more sense based on your workload’s performance optimization requirements.

Learning Objectives

Learn what to consider when choosing between EC2 instances and serverless services for your cloud-based application architectures
Learn when to go serverless or when to use EC2 instances instead

Intended Audience

Anyone responsible for migrating existing applications to the AWS Cloud
Solutions architects looking to decide between EC2 instances and a serverless implementation

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, you should have a basic understanding of Amazon EC2 as well as the various serverless service offerings in AWS, which you can learn about in this course: https://cloudacademy.com/course/survey-serverless-2399/