re:Invent 2016 Sessions
AWS Getting Started Videos for Education
Overview of the Cloud Adoption Framework Operations Perspective
Lambda, API Gateway, and Microservices
Getting Started with Serverless Architectures
Video: several best practices at ~36 min mark
Using AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway
Video: deeper dive into Lambda and API gateway
Implementing Microservices on AWS
Whitepaper: overview of AWS microservices and interaction between them
Fully managed with AWS Code Pipeline
Most complete option for modeling and automating your deployment steps
Leverages Code Pipeline (workflow automation), Code Deploy (build, test, and package your code), S3 (store code package), and CloudFormation (deployment)
Partially managed with AWS CloudFormation (blog entry with S3 integration
Primarily focused on deploying your code instead of using the console
Video: a discussion about storage options and best practices with EMR at ~32 min mark