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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

Connecting to an Amazon RDS DB instance


Once the Amazon RDS DB instance is created, you can connect to it for performing read/write operations as well as for performing day-to-day maintenance activities. Before connecting to the DB instance, ensure that the port to connect with the DB instance is allowed in the firewall or security group. Also, ensure that the source IP from where you need to connect to the DB instance is allowed in the security group.

Connecting to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster

Aurora DB clusters consist of a primary instance and an Aurora Replica. A separate endpoint is available for the primary instance, Aurora Read instance, or a group of Aurora Read instances. In line with the task you want to carry out, it is possible to use any of these endpoints in scripting, application, or manually connecting them. Tools used to connect with MySQL databases can be used to connect to Amazon Aurora cluster DB instances.

You can refer to the following syntax for connecting to an Aurora...