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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

Overview of AWS Lambda

In AWS, a compute resource such as AWS EC2 can be used to host small-to-large enterprise applications. Notably, infrastructure configuration complexity in enterprise applications may vary from application to application in different organizations. Handling day-to-day operational activities on these compute resources may be time-consuming and require additional resources to manage tasks. Even if an organization automates tasks, any periodical manual intervention in activity may create a hindrance for the management and maintenance of such resources.

To address this organizational issue, Amazon provides a hosted compute service called Amazon Lambda. The sole purpose of the Lambda service is to abstract server management and simplify the building of on-demand applications. Lambda provides an abstract layer for hosting application functions and manages underlined...