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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

RDS engine types


Amazon RDS supports six DB engine types: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. The following table helps us understand the connecting port and protocol for each of these DB instances:

Amazon RDS engine types

Default port

Protocol

Aurora DB

3306

TCP

MariaDB

3306

TCP

Microsoft SQL

1433

TCP

MySQL

3306

TCP

Oracle

1521

TCP

PostgreSQL

5432

TCP

The Amazon RDS engine for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle supports two licensing models: license included and Bring Your Own License (BYOL). In case you are already invested in purchasing licenses for such databases, it can also be used as a BYOL with Amazon RDS to minimize monthly billing.

Note

Supported instance types may vary for each Amazon RDS engine.

Amazon Aurora DB

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). It provides a rare combination of performance and reliability like commercial databases and the cost effectiveness of open-source databases. Amazon...