About the Course
Today’s organizations want more than cloud hosting; they want agility with control. Whether delivering citizen services, NGO program platforms, internal automations, customer-facing apps, or data pipelines, leadership expects solutions that scale under demand, remain resilient during disruptions, and cost what they should cost.
This course turns serverless from "cloud hype" into a practical delivery model you can use at work. Participants will gain tangible capability in serverless application development, including framing use cases, designing event-driven flows, choosing the right triggers, managing permissions, deploying safely, and monitoring production behavior. You'll learn how AWS Lambda and Azure Functions compare, how to avoid common mistakes, and how to build solutions that are secure, testable, and maintainable in real organizations.
Target Audience
This course is designed for professionals who need to build, modernize, integrate, or operate cloud services effectively.
This course is designed for:
- Software developers building APIs, integrations, and backend services
- DevOps and platform engineers supporting cloud delivery and CI/CD
- IT managers responsible for modernization, uptime, and operational efficiency
- Public sector digital teams delivering scalable citizen or departmental services
- NGO tech leads building data-driven program platforms and automation
- Data and analytics teams triggering workflows and processing events at scale
- Security and governance teams supporting cloud controls and compliance
- Solution architects designing event-driven architecture across teams
- Product and service managers coordinating faster releases with lower overhead
- Anyone expected to justify cloud cost, scalability, and reliability decisions
Course Objectives
This course equips you to design and deliver secure, scalable serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, so you can ship value faster without carrying unnecessary infrastructure complexity.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Understand the business value and best-fit use cases for serverless computing
- Frame real workplace problems as serverless and event-driven architecture solutions
- Build and deploy functions on AWS Lambda and Azure Functions using practical templates
- Design triggers, integrations, and APIs using common event sources and HTTP endpoints
- Implement identity, access control, and secrets handling safely in production
- Apply observability practices for serverless monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting
- Manage performance, reliability, and cost optimization for serverless workloads
- Communicate architecture choices clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Requirements & Prerequisites
Participants should have a basic understanding of cloud computing and some experience with AWS or Azure platforms. Familiarity with programming concepts is recommended.
Professional and Organizational Impact
When you can deliver reliable services without managing servers, you become the person leadership trusts when speed, scale, and cost matter.
As a participant, you will benefit by:
- Build confidence designing serverless solutions that scale under real demand
- Deliver automation and integrations faster with fewer operational dependencies
- Strengthen your ability to choose the right cloud pattern for the right problem
- Gain practical skills in AWS Lambda and Azure Functions you can apply immediately
- Improve your decision-making around cost optimization and performance trade-offs
- Increase your credibility when defending architecture and cloud spend
- Position yourself as a modern cloud professional fluent in event-driven systems
- Become more effective in cross-team delivery with repeatable deployment workflows
Organizations that adopt serverless effectively deliver faster, operate leaner, and respond to change with less friction.
Your organization will benefit from:
- Faster delivery cycles for new services, integrations, and enhancements
- Reduced infrastructure management burden across IT and engineering teams
- Improved scalability and resilience through event-driven architecture patterns
- Better cost control by paying for execution rather than idle capacity
- Stronger operational visibility through structured monitoring and logging
- More secure service delivery with least-privilege access and managed services
- Better continuity and reliability for citizen services, program platforms, and customer apps
- Improved governance through consistent templates, policies, and deployment standards
Training Methodology
This is a practical, outcome-driven course designed to turn serverless computing into real delivery capability across AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.
Methodology includes:
- Hands-on labs building functions, triggers, and APIs for real workplace use cases
- Guided implementation using step-by-step templates and reference architectures
- Scenario-based design exercises for public sector, NGO, and private enterprise needs
- Group work to design, defend, and improve a serverless solution proposal
- Case studies on automation, integration, event processing, and backend APIs
- Reusable workflows for deployment, monitoring, and cost control
- Reflection prompts that challenge existing infrastructure habits and delivery delays
- Practical assignments that produce deployable serverless components and documentation
Upcoming Sessions
Next available dates worldwide
Certification
Recognized credentials that advance your career
Participants who complete the Serverless Computing with AWS Lambda and Azure Functions Program earn a Trainingcred Certificate of Achievement, demonstrating professional competence and alignment with global standards in learning and development.
NITA Accredited
Accredited by the National Industrial Training Authority, ensuring programs meet nationally recognized standards of quality and relevance.
CPD Certified
Recognized by the CPD Certification Service, ensuring every program meets internationally benchmarked standards of professional excellence.
Why this course earns its place on your CV
Accredited training, practitioner trainers, and peers on the same career track — the three things real expertise is built on.
Career Advancement
- Master AWS Lambda and Azure to elevate your tech career potential.
- Become indispensable in tech with cutting-edge serverless architecture skills.
- Unlock high-paying cloud roles with expertise in market-leading platforms.
Expert Delivery
- Learn from seasoned cloud professionals with real-world experience.
- Courses designed by AWS and Azure certified experts.
- Gain insights from developers who've built scalable solutions.
Practical Skills Application
- Deploy your first serverless app by course end, using AWS and Azure.
- Hands-on labs and projects to solidify your serverless computing skills.
- Transform theoretical knowledge into practical serverless solutions.























