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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

Deploying web applications to Elastic Beanstalk environments

Elastic Beanstalk allows you to create a new web application, update an environment with a newer web application version, or redeploy an earlier version of the application. Deploying a new web application is very quick. It creates an underlying required AWS resource and deploys a web application. It is important to understand the following points while deploying an application to Elastic Beanstalk:

  • While updating a newer version of a web application, you can perform in-place updates. This means that the already deployed web application will be updated with a newer source bundle.
  • Redeploying the application may result in restarting the web container or the web application server. As a result, the web application may be unavailable for a while during the deployment process.
  • When an environment has more than one EC2 instances...