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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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Book Image

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

5 (2)
By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar

Overview of this book

This book will focus on the revised version of AWS Certified Developer Associate exam. The 2019 version of this exam guide includes all the recent services and offerings from Amazon that benefits developers. AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Next, this book will teach you about microservices, serverless architecture, security best practices, advanced deployment methods and more. Going ahead we will take you through AWS DynamoDB A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Lastly, this book will help understand Elastic Beanstalk and will also walk you through 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 (30 chapters)
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Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

AWS Relational Database Service

AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed relational database service from Amazon. RDS makes it easier for enterprises and developers who want to use a relational database in the cloud without investing a lot of time and resources in managing the environment. AWS RDS supports six database engines—Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. It provides easy-to-use, cost-effective, and scalable relational databases in the cloud.

The following topics will be covered in the chapter:

  • Introducing RDS
  • RDS engine types
  • Creating an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance
  • Monitoring RDS instances
  • Creating a snapshot
  • Restoring a DB from a snapshot
  • Changing an RDS instance type
  • Amazon RDS and VPC
  • Connecting to an Amazon RDS DB instance
  • RDS best practices