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AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide

AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide

AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide

3.4 (21)
By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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Overview of this book

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book gives you a fair understanding of core AWS services and basic architecture. Next, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Moving ahead you will learn about Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) and handling application traffic with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Going ahead you we will talk about Monitoring with CloudWatch, Simple storage service (S3) and Glacier and CloudFront along with other AWS storage options. Next we will take you through AWS DynamoDB – A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Finally, this book covers understanding Elastic Beanstalk and overview of 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 (19 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification
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AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification
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Domain 1.0 – AWS fundamentals
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Domain 2.0 – Designing and developing
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Domain 3.0 – Deployment and security
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Domain 4.0 – Debugging
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Frequently asked questions about the exam
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Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS
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Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS
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History of the cloud
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Basic AWS concepts
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Benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center
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Accessing AWS services
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AWS overview
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What are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS?
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Understanding virtualization
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Elasticity versus scalability
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Comparing AWS cloud and on-premise data centers
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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) versus Return on Investment (ROI)
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Creating a new AWS account
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Deleting an AWS account
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AWS free tier
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Root user versus non-root user
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AWS dashboard
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Core AWS services
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Shared security responsibility model
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AWS soft limits
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Disaster recovery with AWS
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Identity and Access Management
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Identity and Access Management
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Understanding the AWS root user
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Elements of IAM
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Introduction to AWS CLI
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Groups
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IAM role
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Policy
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STS
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IAM best practices
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Exam tips
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Virtual Private Clouds
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Virtual Private Clouds
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AWS VPCs
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Subnets
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IP addressing
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Creating a VPC
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Security
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VPC networking components
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NATs
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DHCP option sets
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VPC peering
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VPC endpoints
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ClassicLink
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VPC best practices
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Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud
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Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud
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Introduction to EC2
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Pricing for EC2
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EC2 instance life cycle
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AMIs
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Introducing EBS
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EC2 best practices
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Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
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Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
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Introduction to the Elastic Load Balancer
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ELB best practices
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Monitoring with CloudWatch
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Monitoring with CloudWatch
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How Amazon CloudWatch works
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Elements of Amazon CloudWatch
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CloudWatch dashboards
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Monitoring types – basic and detailed
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CloudWatch best practices
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Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront
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Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront
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Amazon S3
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Creating a bucket
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Transfer Acceleration
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Requester Pay model
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Understanding objects
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Versioning
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Object tagging
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S3 storage classes
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Comparison of S3 storage classes and Glacier
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Life cycle management
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Hosting a static website on S3
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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
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Cross-region replication
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Other AWS Storage Options
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Other AWS Storage Options
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Amazon EFS
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AWS Storage Gateway
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AWS Snowball
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AWS Snowmobile
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AWS Relational Database Services
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AWS Relational Database Services
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Amazon RDS components
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RDS engine types
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Creating an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance
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Monitoring RDS instances
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Creating a snapshot
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Restoring a DB from a snapshot
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Changing an RDS instance type
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Amazon RDS and VPC
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Connecting to an Amazon RDS DB instance
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RDS best practices
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AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service
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AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service
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Let's first understand what an RDBMS is
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Introducing DynamoDB
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DynamoDB best practices
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Amazon Simple Queue Service
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Amazon Simple Queue Service
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Why use SQS?
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How do queues work?
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Main features of SQS
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Types of queues
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Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)
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Queue attributes
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Creating a queue
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Sending a message in a queue
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Viewing/deleting a message from a queue
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Purging a queue
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Deleting a queue
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Subscribing a queue to a topic
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Adding user permissions to a queue
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SQS limits
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Queue monitoring and logging
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SQS security
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Simple Notification Service
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Simple Notification Service
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Introduction to Amazon SNS
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Creating an Amazon SNS topic
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Subscribing to an SNS topic
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Publishing a message to an SNS topic
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Deleting an SNS topic
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Managing access to Amazon SNS topics
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Invoking the Lambda function using SNS notification
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Sending Amazon SNS messages to Amazon SQS queues
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Monitoring SNS with CloudWatch
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SNS best practices
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Simple Workflow Service
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Simple Workflow Service
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When to use Amazon SWF
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Workflow
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Lifecycle of workflow execution
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Polling for tasks
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SWF endpoints
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Managing access with IAM
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AWS CloudFormation
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AWS CloudFormation
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What is a template?
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What is a stack?
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CloudFormation best practices
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Elastic Beanstalk
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Elastic Beanstalk
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Elastic Beanstalk components
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Architectural concepts
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Getting started using Elastic Beanstalk
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Version life cycle
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Deploying web applications to Elastic Beanstalk environments
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Monitoring the web application environment
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Elastic Beanstalk best practices
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Overview of AWS Lambda
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Overview of AWS Lambda
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Introduction to AWS Lambda
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Environment variables
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Tagging Lambda functions
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Event source mapping for AWS services
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Event source mapping for AWS stream-based services
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Event source mapping for custom applications
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AWS Lambda best practices
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Mock Tests
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Mock Tests
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Mock test 1
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Mock test 2
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Answers to Mock test 1
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Answers to Mock test 2

Creating a new AWS account

Creating a new account at AWS to start using cloud services is easy, just like opening a new email account. 

Note

The AWS interface may change from time-to-time.

The steps to create an AWS account are as follows:

  1. In a web browser, open the following URL: https://aws.amazon.com/.
  2. Click Create an AWS Account, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.10: Create a new AWS account

  1. First, select I am a new user option, provide the E-mail or mobile number of an authorized person to open a new account, and finally click on Sign in using our secure server as follows:

Figure 2.11: Signing in a new AWS account

  1. Enter Login Credentials fields such as name, email address, and password and finally click on the Create account button as follows:

Figure 2.12: Login credentials

  1. Provide Contact Information as follows:

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As per the actual usage, select Company Account or Personal Account. Please provide the appropriate CAPTCHA and accept the agreement after reading and understanding it...

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