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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Accessing DynamoDB

We can access the DynamoDB table through the AWS management console directly by clicking on the items tab in the table selection and reading and writing items there directly. This is, however, inefficient, as no modern application would have us enter values manually into an interface that is grammatically accessible.

The most powerful feature of DynamoDB is of course its REST API where we can send standard HTTP PUT/GET/UPDATE/DELETE requests. With this programmatic approach, we can send commands to the DynamoDB table through the AWS CLI. It is very well integrated with all the SDKs, and, of course, we can always perform API calls straight to the DynamoDB API.

Accessing DynamoDB through the CLI

When accessing...