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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

Introducing DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service from Amazon, providing a 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 uptime and performance of the table. You can use the management console for monitoring DynamoDB resource utilization and its effective performance metrics...