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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

Introducing DynamoDB


Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service from Amazon that provides fast and flexible NoSQL database service for applications that need consistent and low-latency access at any scale. It supports key-value and document data models. It provides a dynamic schema model and predictable performance. DynamoDB is best suited to big data, advertisement technologies, gaming, mobile applications, time series data, logs, IoT, and other applications where heavy write performance, reduced latency, and a dynamic schema are required.

DynamoDB allows you to store any amount of data and handle any level of user traffic. It allows you to scale up or down a table's read/write capacity without affecting the up time and performance of the table. You can use the management console for monitoring DynamoDB resource utilization and its effective performance metrics.

It helps you reduce storage usage by automatically deleting the expired items from a table. Since it can help you...