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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

Elastic Beanstalk components

The following lists various Elastic Beanstalk components that work together to make it possible to deploy and manage custom applications easily in the AWS cloud:

  • Application: This is a logical collection of Elastic Beanstalk components, including the environment, versions, and environment configuration. For easy understanding, it can be imagined as a folder.
  • Application version: This refers to a specific source code version for a web application. It points to an Amazon S3 object containing deployment code, such as a Java .war file. The application version is part of an application. Each application can have multiple versions. Generally, applications run with the latest code version. At times, multiple versions of an application may run simultaneously for catering to users in a different location or for testing purposes.
  • Environment: There are two...