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Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers

By : Serkan Sakinmaz
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Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers

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By: Serkan Sakinmaz

Overview of this book

AWS provides a vast variety of services for implementing Python applications, which can pose a challenge for those without an AWS background. This book addresses one of the more predominant problems of choosing the right service and stepping into the implementation of exciting Python apps using AWS. The book begins by showing you how to install Python and create an AWS account, before helping you explore AWS Lambda, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, and S3 for Python programming. You'll then gain hands-on experience in using these services to build the Python application. As you advance, you'll discover how to debug Python apps using PyCharm, and then start deploying the Python applications on Elastic Beanstalk. You’ll also learn how to monitor Python applications using the CloudWatch service, along with creating and publishing APIs on AWS to access the Python application. The concluding chapters will help you get to grips with storing unstructured and semi-structured data using NoSQL and DynamoDB, as well as advance your knowledge using the Glue serverless data integration service in AWS. By the end of this Python book, you’ll be able to take your application development skills up a notch with AWS services and advance in your career.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Python Installation and the Cloud
4
Part 2: A Deep Dive into AWS with Python
9
Part 3: Useful AWS Services to Implement Python

Database Operations with RDS

In this chapter, we are going to learn the basics of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and create an RDS instance in order to make a database operation. You can use RDS to create the most popular databases in AWS. You can create Oracle, MySQL, or MS SQL databases on the cloud with scaling capabilities. In general, when you need to create a database, you must manage the infrastructure using an on-premises system. Managing the hardware and infrastructure, installing the database, and then monitoring could require a lot of effort to set up. AWS allows you to select the database type that you want and then create it with a simple button click – that is all:

Figure 8.1 – Click to create

In this chapter, we will create a database and make some operations using Python. The chapter covers the following topics:

  • Features of RDS
  • Provisioning RDS
  • Connecting to the RDS
  • Creating a table in...