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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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Book Image

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

5 (2)
By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar

Overview of this book

This book will focus on the revised version of AWS Certified Developer Associate exam. The 2019 version of this exam guide includes all the recent services and offerings from Amazon that benefits developers. AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Next, this book will teach you about microservices, serverless architecture, security best practices, advanced deployment methods and more. Going ahead we will take you through AWS DynamoDB A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Lastly, this book will help understand Elastic Beanstalk and will also walk you through AWS lambda. At the end of this book, we will cover enough topics, tips and tricks along with mock tests for you to be able to pass the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam and develop as well as manage your applications on the AWS platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
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Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

Billing alerts

Just as CloudWatch monitors other AWS resources, it can also monitor the monthly billing charges for an AWS account. You can set the threshold for billing. As soon as the billing amount reaches the threshold or shoots above the specified threshold, it notifies the specified administrators. You need to enable billing alerts before you can configure alerts on billing data. You can enable billing alerts from the AWS account settings. Remember, only the root user can enable the billing alerts; AWS IAM users cannot do that.

The process of enabling billing alerts is as follows:

  1. Log into the AWS account with the root user credentials.
  2. Click on the account name and My Billing Dashboard:
Figure 7.11: Opening the My Billing dashboard
  1. From the left-hand pane, click on Preferences and check Receive Billing Alerts. Optionally, you can enable Receive PDF invoice By Email...