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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.
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Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

DynamoDB Query

DynamoDB Query is a mechanism to request items from a table. Using queries, you can request data from a table or any secondary index that has a composite primary key. While querying a table or index, you have to provide the name of the partition key attribute and a value for the same. The query returns all the items with that partition key value. You can also select a sort key attribute and filter the search result using any of the comparison operators.

For working with Query in GUI, you need to go to the DynamoDB dashboard: https://console.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb. From the dashboard, you can select the Tables | Movies | Items tab. In this example, we are working with the Movies table. You need to select the specific table name that you want to work with on your dashboard.

In the following screenshot, you can see the Query window for the Movies table, which has...