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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

Introducing CodePipeline and workflows

AWS CodePipeline is able to release new features or bug fixes more frequently by atomizing builds. It performs tests and makes code ready to be deployed to various environments. It can be configured using the AWS CodePipeline web console or a CLI. A workflow defines the various steps in a software release process and it can be customized as per an enterprise's requirements. The workflow briefly instructs AWS CodePipeline on how new code changes will progress through each stage of the release process, including how and where the newly modified code should be built, tested, and deployed.

Every code change made to the source code repository is automatically pushed through the set of actions defined in the workflow (or pipeline). This is to make the modified code run through a standardized process after every commit. Optionally, Amazon CodePipeline...