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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

Tagging Lambda functions


Tagging is useful for segregating and grouping Lambda functions with the help of key-value pairs. By using tags, customers with hundreds of Lambda functions can easily access and analyze a specific set by filtering on those that contain the same tag. Tags are key-value pairs. They are associated with a Lambda function to organize them as well as to find other details, such as frequency of invocation and the cost of each function invocation. Primarily, tags help to group, filter, and allocate cost.

Lambda function over VPC

Deploying AWS resources inside an Amazon VPC makes sure that they cannot be accessed over the public internet. By default, Lambda function code is invoked within a VPC. To enable a Lambda function to access other AWS resources deployed in a private VPC, it is essential to provide details such as VPC, subnets, and security groups at the time of configuring it. VPC details are used by the Lambda function to create ENIs to connect securely with other...