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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

AWS tools for CI/CD

At a higher level, the software development life cycle can be broken down into five steps, which are as source, build, test, deploy, and monitor, as shown in the following screenshot:

We will go through each of these steps in detail:

  • Source: At this first stage of the software development life cycle, developers commit their source code many times a day to a common branch in the common source code repository to identify integration errors at the early stages. Once a feature, development, bug fix, or hotfix is complete on the relevant branch, it will be merged with the master branch to release the development into production, passing through various environments, such as development and test, and passing all the tests specified in the CodePipeline.
  • Build: In an earlier stage, once development is peer reviewed and merged to the production, it usually triggers...