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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

Methods of accessing DynamoDB

Amazon provides a DynamoDB console, CLI, and API interface to access DynamoDB resources.

Let's look at each of these interfaces.

DynamoDB console

Amazon provides a DynamoDB AWS Management Console. You can access the console here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/home.

Here's what you can do with the DynamoDB AWS Management Console:

  • Access the DynamoDB dashboard for monitoring recent alerts, the total provisioned capacity of tables, health of the service, and latest news on DynamoDB.
  • Create, update, and delete tables. It also provides a capacity calculator that can help you estimate the capacity units you may need based on the information you provide.
  • Manage DynamoDB Streams.
  • ...