Cloud Fundamentals: AWS Services for C# Developers

Take your first step into the world of cloud computing

About This Course

AWS is the leading cloud provider by a pretty wide margin, and contrary to popular belief, it is an excellent choice for your C# and .NET applications. In this course, Nick will start you with all the AWS services you should know how to use in AWS. Nick has been using AWS for years to build highly scalable and available applications for millions of users, so the content of this course is based on real-world knowledge of seeing what works and what doesn't.

Course Curriculum

4h 13m 9 sections
Welcome
01:47 Free preview
What will you learn in this course?
01:48 Free preview
Who is this course for and prerequisites
01:24 Free preview
Registering for AWS
01:48
AWS Free Tier
02:23
Introduction to the AWS Management Console
02:46
Introducing the AWS Command Line Interface
01:28
Authenticating our workstation for this course
02:34
What is a queue?
04:01
Creating our first Queue in SQS
04:38
Publishing through the UI
02:42
Creating a message publisher
06:18
Creating a message consumer
05:26
The API we will be working on
02:03
Adding message publishing
10:03
Implementing a consumer in ASP.NET Core
05:37
Refactoring the consumer
08:38
What happens when things go wrong?
02:20
What is a dead letter queue?
02:33
Creating a dead letter queue
03:02
Redriving dead messages
02:00
Section recap
00:41
What is SNS?
03:49
Creating our first topic in SNS
02:04
Publishing through the UI
04:40
Creating a message publisher
02:32
Creating a message consumer
01:03
Consuming on multiple apps
02:06
Where we left off with SQS
00:46
Re-implementing the publisher
04:26
Implementing an in-app filter
01:28
Introducing message attribute based filtering
02:07
Introducing body based filtering
01:25
Section recap
00:25
What is DynamoDB?
03:51
What is the Partition Key?
03:33
What is the Sort Key?
01:21
Creating a DynamoDB table
01:58
Getting to know the UI
02:34
Understanding DynamoDB Capacity
04:04
The API we will introduce DynamoDB to
00:42
Implementing data access to DynamoDB
08:48
The issue with scanning
02:35
Conditional operations
05:51
Transactions
05:08
What are secondary indexes?
00:50
Global secondary index
01:56
Creating and using a GSI
06:55
Local secondary index
01:59
Creating and using an LSI
02:23
What are DynamoDB Streams?
01:30
Understanding autoscaling
04:32
Pricing cost savings
01:53
Section recap
00:46
What is AWS S3?
01:36
Creating our first Bucket
01:51
Uploading and accessing data manually
02:04
Uploading data using C#
03:23
Downloading and processing data using C#
02:34
The API we will be adding S3 support to
00:41
Implementing file uploading
04:58
Implementing file retrieval
02:02
Implementing file deletion
01:32
Reacting to changes
00:33
Bucket versioning
01:08
Section recap
00:34
What is a secrets manager?
01:32
Creating a secret
02:50
Reading a secret in C#
02:39
Secrets versions
03:11
Implementing secret loading in ASP.NET Core
04:54
Dealing with secret rotations
02:11
The pricing model
00:50
Section recap
00:27
What is serverless and Lambda?
01:31
Creating our first Lambda
03:11
The .NET Lambda CLI tool
01:00
Installing the .NET Lambda templates
00:54
The concept of triggers and destinations
04:00
Creating our first C# lambda
03:25
Creating a simple HTTP API
03:21
Debugging Lambdas locally
03:43
Consuming an SQS Queue using Lambda
05:00
Consuming an SNS Topic using Lambda
02:26
Triggering a Lambda with DynamoDB
03:49
Triggering a Lambda with S3
07:04
Converting an ASP.NET Core API to an AWS Lambda
02:32
Building a Custom Runtime Lambda
02:15
Section recap
00:27
Course conclusion
00:42

Meet Your Instructor

Nick Chapsas

Nick Chapsas

Nick Chapsas is a .NET & C# content creator, educator and a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies with years of experience in Software Engineering and Engineering Management.

He has worked for some of the biggest companies in the world, building systems that served millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

Nick creates free content on YouTube and is the host of the Keep Coding Podcast.

View all courses by Nick Chapsas

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