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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

Chapter 16. Elastic Beanstalk

Traditionally, deploying a web application on AWS may have required spending time on selecting appropriate AWS services such as EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, and so on, and creating and configuring an AWS resource from scratch to host a web application. It could be difficult for developers to build the infrastructure, configure the OS, install the required dependencies, and deploy the web services. AWS Elastic Beanstalk removes the need to manually build an infrastructure for the developer and makes it possible for them to quickly deploy and manage a web application on AWS of any scale. Developers just need to upload the code and the rest of the things such as capacity provisioning, building, and configuring AWS resources such as EC2 instances, ELB, Auto Scaling, and application health monitoring will be taken care of by Elastic Beanstalk. The developer still gets full access to each of the underlying AWS resources, powering a web application to fine-tune configuration...