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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar

Overview of this book

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book gives you a fair understanding of core AWS services and basic architecture. Next, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Moving ahead you will learn about Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) and handling application traffic with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Going ahead you we will talk about Monitoring with CloudWatch, Simple storage service (S3) and Glacier and CloudFront along with other AWS storage options. Next we will take you through AWS DynamoDB – A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Finally, this book covers understanding Elastic Beanstalk and overview of 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 (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
Index

Domain 1.0 – AWS fundamentals


Identify and recognize cloud architecture considerations, such as fundamental components and effective designs. Content may include the following:

  • How to design cloud services
  • Database concepts
  • Planning and design
  • Familiarity with architectural trade-off decisions, high availability versus cost, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) versus installing your own database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), and Messaging
  • DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS CloudFormation
  • Elasticity and scalability