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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

Summary

  • The root user has complete, unrestricted access to all resources, including billing information, on the account. This is a superuser, and its permissions cannot be altered by any other user on the account.
  • Never share your credentials with other users, especially root credentials, as they give unrestricted access within an AWS account.
  • Usually, an individual user is authenticated by a username and password. Similarly, programmatic access through applications and CLIs are authenticated using an access key ID and secret key.
  • An access key ID and secret key come in a pair. An access key ID is a 20-digit key and a secret key is a 40-digit key.
  • AWS does not provide any mechanism to retrieve an access key ID or a secret key if these keys are lost.
  • Password policies specify the complexity requirement of a password, and define a mandatory rotation period for a password associated...