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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

The benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center

There are significant benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center, and some of them are listed here:

  • Switching from Capital Expenditure (CapEx) to Operational Expenditure (OpEx): There is no need to bear the huge upfront cost of purchasing hardware or software and making a CapEx provision in the budget for procuring the same. With AWS, you only pay for what services you use on a monthly basis as OpEx.
  • The cost benefit of massive economies of scale: Since AWS purchases everything in bulk, this gives them a cost advantage. AWS passes on the benefit of this cost advantage to their customers by offering services at a low cost. As the AWS cloud becomes larger and larger, these massive economies of scale benefit AWS, as well as end customers.
  • There is no need to guess the required infrastructure capacity: Most of the...