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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about Amazon DynamoDB, NoSQL database. DynamoDB frees the user from handling the burden of managing the infrastructure, scaling the database, administrative tasks, and so on. DynamoDB automatically replicates our data on multiple availability zones so that the data is highly available. We saw different ways, such as AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDK - Java, to create DynamoDB tables and we also performed CRUD operations using the AWS SDK - Java. While retrieving the data from tables, it is important to choose between the query and scan operations. Scan operations are slow when you are scanning and filtering items on large tables. So to avoid such a situation where provisioned read throughput is utilized by a scan operation, create a table or secondary indexes where you can use the query operation. In the next chapter, we will see how we can use Amazon ElastiCache. ElastiCache supports Redis and Memcached caching servers. We will create the ElastiCache...