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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-supported platforms

The platform supported by Elastic Beanstalk defines the instance software configuration. Platforms are broadly divided into two categories:

  • Preconfigured platforms: These are also called Elastic Beanstalk-supported platforms. These platforms are available in multiple configurations of various programming languages, Docker containers, and/or web containers. Based on the selected platform, Elastic Beanstalk will install the specific stack of software on one or more Amazon EC2 instances. At present, all Linux platforms are running on Amazon Linux 2017.03 (64-bit). At a very high level, preconfigured supported platforms include the following:
    • Packer builder
    • Single container Docker
    • Multicontainer Docker
    • Preconfigured Docker Go
    • Java SE
    • Java with Tomcat
    • .NET on Windows Server with IIS Node.js
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Ruby (Passenger Standalone)
    • Ruby (Puma)
    • Node...