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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

When to use Amazon SWF

Here are some scenarios where SWF can be used:

  • When you have multiple tasks that need to be coordinated and executed in a specific sequence based on some dependency or in parallel
  • When you have multiple application components and need to dispatch tasks to these application components
  • When you have a distributed application and you need to coordinate and process tasks in a distributed application environment
  • When you need to execute ordered application steps
  • When you need to manage the application state during distributed execution
  • When you need to reliably execute periodic tasks and audit the execution
  • When you need to asynchronously execute event-driven tasks

Here are some SWF use cases:

  • Media processing
  • Customer-order-processing workflow
  • Web application backend
  • Business-process workflow
  • Analytics pipelines

Now that we know what SWF is and what it can...