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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

Accessing AWS services

Users can access AWS services in multiple ways; individual services or the whole infrastructure can be accessed using any of the following means:

  • AWS Management Console: This is a simple to use, browser-based graphical user interface that customers can use to manage their AWS resources.
  • The AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI): This is mostly used by system administrators to perform day-to-day administration activities. There are individual sets of commands available for each AWS service.
  • AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs): AWS helps the user reduce the complexity of coding by providing SDKs for a number of programming languages, including Android, iOS, Java, Python, PHP, .NET, Node.js, Go, and Ruby. These SDKs can be used to create custom applications to meet specific organizational needs.
  • Query APIs: AWS provides a number of HTTP endpoints. These endpoints...