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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

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Any organization using IT services may have a number of resources, processes, environments, projects, and operational activities. All the organizational activities are carried out by various departments. There is always a clear distinction as to who needs to do what. Infrastructure and operational activities are performed by a specific set of personnel in the organization. Similarly, there may be a development team, testing team, project team, finance team, security team, and other relevant teams in the organization that need to perform specific tasks in the organization.

Just as there are various teams to perform different activities in the organization, similarly, there is a clear set of responsibilities and accountability for each of the individuals in a team. A developer may not need to access testing resources. Similarly, a testing resource...