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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 best practices

Web application deployment on Elastic Beanstalk ultimately uses AWS services, such as EC2, ELB, ASG, SQS, S3, and many others. Points such as scalability, security, persistent storage, fault tolerance, content delivery, software updates, patching, and connectivity should be kept in mind when designing applications to deploy on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The following list describes some of the best practices that you should follow while working with Elastic Beanstalk:

  • Web applications should be as stateless as possible, fault tolerant, and loosely coupled to efficiently scale out and scale in as the end user's request increases and decreases, respectively.
  • On AWS, security is a shared responsibility. AWS is responsible for providing the necessary physical resources (as and when) to make the cloud a safe place to deploy our applications, and we...