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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar

Overview of this book

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book gives you a fair understanding of core AWS services and basic architecture. Next, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Moving ahead you will learn about Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) and handling application traffic with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Going ahead you we will talk about Monitoring with CloudWatch, Simple storage service (S3) and Glacier and CloudFront along with other AWS storage options. Next we will take you through AWS DynamoDB – A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Finally, this book covers understanding Elastic Beanstalk and overview of 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 (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
Index

Amazon RDS components


The Amazon RDS components are detailed in the following subsections.

DB instances

Each Amazon RDS engine can create an instance with at least one database in it. Each instance can have multiple user-created databases. Database names must be unique to an AWS account and are called DB instance identifiers. Each DB instance is a building block and an isolated environment in the cloud. These databases can be accessed using the same tools that are used to access standalone databases hosted in a data center. On top of standard tools, AWS RDS instances can also accessed by the AWS Management Console, the API, and the CLI.

Each DB engine has its own version. With the help of a DB parameter group, DB engine parameters can be configured. These parameters help to configure DB instance performance. One DB parameter group can be shared among the same instance types of the same DB engine and version. These sets of allowed parameters vary according to the DB engine and its version. It...