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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

Kinesis Data Firehose

The main differences between Kinesis Streams (video and data) and Firehose is that Kinesis Stream stores data persistently for a specified retention period and it allows you to write consumer applications. On the other hand, Firehose doesn't store data persistently nor does it allow you to create a consumer application. It acts as an ingesting service, which means that it collects and transforms data in real time before storing it in supported storage.

At the time of writing this book, Kinesis Data Firehose can be integrated with Amazon's S3 bucket, Amazon Redshift cluster, Amazon Elasticsearch cluster, and Splunk. In general, answering the following questions will help you to select the right service:

  • Are ingesting messages required to be stored in the stream?
  • Are you looking for a managed solution or are you planning to manage a solution yourself...