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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

Creating a VPC

By default, when you create an AWS account, Amazon automatically provisions a default VPC for you. You can customize the default VPC based on your needs. You can add more subnets, remove any existing subnets, change the default route table, attach network gateways, or change the Network Access Control List (NACL) as per your requirements.

You can configure the default VPC and use it as needed, or you can create additional VPCs using either the VPC wizard or by creating custom VPCs manually. The VPC wizard provides four predefined categories of VPCs, which can help you quickly build the VPCs; they are these:

  • VPC with a single public subnet
  • VPC with public and private subnets
  • VPC with public and private subnets and hardware VPN access
  • VPC with a private subnet only and hardware VPN access

Let's understand each of these VPC types and the steps involved in creating...