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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

By : Tankariya, Parmar
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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

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By: Tankariya, Parmar
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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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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification
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Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification
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Frequently asked questions about the exam
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Understanding the Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services
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Understanding the Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services
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Examples of cloud services
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The evolution of cloud computing
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More about AWS
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The benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center
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Accessing AWS services
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An overview of AWS
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Understanding virtualization
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Elasticity versus scalability
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Creating a new AWS account
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Deleting an AWS account
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Understanding the AWS dashboard
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Core AWS services
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The shared security responsibility model
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AWS soft limits
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DR with AWS
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Summary
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Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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Understanding the AWS root user
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Elements of IAM
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IAM best practices
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Exam tips
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Summary
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Virtual Private Clouds
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Virtual Private Clouds
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Introduction to VPCs
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Creating a VPC
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Security
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VPC networking components
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VPC best practices
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Summary
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Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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Introducing EC2
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Pricing for EC2
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EC2 instance life cycle
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Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
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Introducing EBS
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EC2 best practices
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Summary
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Handling Application Traffic with ELB
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Handling Application Traffic with ELB
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Introducing ELB
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Types of ELB
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Features of ELB
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How ELB works
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ELB best practices
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Summary
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Monitoring with CloudWatch
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Monitoring with CloudWatch
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Introducing CloudWatch
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How Amazon CloudWatch works
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Elements of Amazon CloudWatch
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Creating a CloudWatch alarm
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Billing alerts
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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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Summary
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Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront
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Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront
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Introducing Amazon S3
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Creating a bucket
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Understanding objects
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S3 storage classes
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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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CloudFront
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Summary
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Other AWS Storage Options
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Other AWS Storage Options
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Storage and backup services provided by AWS
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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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Summary
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AWS Relational Database Service
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AWS Relational Database Service
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Introducing RDS
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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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Summary
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AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service
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AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service
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Understanding RDBMSes
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Introducing DynamoDB
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DynamoDB components
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Read consistency model
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Naming rules and data types
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Creating a DynamoDB table
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Methods of accessing DynamoDB
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DynamoDB provisioned throughput
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Partitions and data distribution
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GSIs and LSIs
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DynamoDB Query
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DynamoDB Scan
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Reading an item from a DynamoDB table
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Writing an item to a DynamoDB table
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User authentication and access control
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DynamoDB best practices
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Summary
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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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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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Queue attributes
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Operations in 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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Summary
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Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Introducing Amazon SNS
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Amazon SNS fanout
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Application and system alerts
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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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Architectural overview
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SNS best practices
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Summary
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AWS Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
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AWS Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
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When to use Amazon SWF
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SWF endpoints
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Managing access with IAM
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Summary
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CloudFormation Overview
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CloudFormation Overview
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Understanding templates
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Understanding a stack
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The template structure
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A sample CloudFormation template
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CloudFormer
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Rolling updates for auto scaling groups
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CloudFormation best practices
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Summary
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Understanding Elastic Beanstalk
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Understanding Elastic Beanstalk
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Introduction to Elastic Beanstalk
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Elastic Beanstalk components
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Elastic Beanstalk environment tiers
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Elastic Beanstalk-supported platforms
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Creating a web application source bundle
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Getting started using Elastic Beanstalk
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The 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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Summary
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Overview of AWS Lambda
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Overview of AWS Lambda
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Introducing AWS Lambda
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Environment variables
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Tagging Lambda functions
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Lambda functions over VPC
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Building applications with AWS Lambda
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AWS Lambda best practices
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Summary
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Key Management Services
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Key Management Services
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Introducing encryption
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How does KMS work?
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Types of keys
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Creating a CMK
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Updating the administrators or users of a key
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Tagging a key
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Enabling or disabling keys
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AWS services supported by KMS
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Summary
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Working with AWS Kinesis
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Working with AWS Kinesis
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Kinesis Video Streams
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Kinesis Data Streams
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Kinesis Data Firehose
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Kinesis Data Analytics
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Summary
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Working with AWS CodeBuild
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Working with AWS CodeBuild
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Introducing AWS CodeBuild
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Understanding AWS CodeBuild
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Working with AWS CodeBuild
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Summary
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Getting Started with AWS CodeDeploy
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Getting Started with AWS CodeDeploy
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The need for CodeDeploy
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Introducing CodeDeploy
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Components of CodeDeploy
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Summary
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Working with AWS CodePipeline
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Working with AWS CodePipeline
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Introducing CodePipeline and workflows
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AWS CodePipeline usages
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AWS CodePipeline – a higher-level view
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AWS CodePipeline concepts
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Working with CodePipeline
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Summary
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CI/CD on AWS
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CI/CD on AWS
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Understanding CI/CD
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AWS tools for CI/CD
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Summary
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Serverless Computing
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Serverless Computing
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Recapping AWS Lambda
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An overview of API Gateway
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Understanding step functions
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Amazon Cognito
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Amazon Cognito Sync
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Summary
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Amazon Route 53
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Amazon Route 53
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Introduction to Route 53
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Hosted zones
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DNS record types
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Routing policies
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Health checking
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Summary
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ElastiCache Overview
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ElastiCache Overview
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Introduction to ElastiCache
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ElastiCache engine types
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Designing the right cache for your workload
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Summary
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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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Assessments
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Assessments
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Mock Test 1
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Mock Test 2
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Getting Started with AWS CodeDeploy

CodeDeploy is a fully managed build service by Amazon. It can be used to automate code deployment to any instance on AWS EC2 or an on-premises environment. This chapter introduces you to CodeDeploy, and describes how to use CodeDeploy in your development projects.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The need for CodeDeploy
  • Introducing CodeDeploy
  • Components of CodeDeploy
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