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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

Core AWS services


AWS services are divided into various groups based on their use. The following table describes a number of services provided by AWS with their purpose. As AWS continuously evolves its service catalog, there may be periodic additions to this list:

Group

AWS service

Purpose

Compute

Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Provides scalable compute capacity (virtual servers).

EC2 Container Service

Highly scalable and high performance container management service. Supports Docker and runs on a managed cluster of EC2 instances.

Lightsail

Provides template-based computing. It is also called Virtual Private Servers (VPS). It makes it possible to quickly launch virtual machines from templates rather than selecting individual components in EC2.

Elastic Beanstalk

Developers can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. Developers just have to upload their application and the rest is taken care of by Elastic Beanstalk.

Lambda

Allows us to run code without actually spinning servers. Such code...