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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 9. Other AWS Storage Options

AWS offers a variety of highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure storage services to address various organizational needs. It provides a rich web console for all of the services, which is easy to access and navigate. Its easy-to-use UI complements efficient services for quickly performing day-to-day administrative tasks. AWS also provides a set of API and CLI interfaces. You can use APIs and CLIs to perform advanced operations or to automate various tasks using customized applications and scripts. The following table describes a number of storage and backup services provided by AWS:

AWS service

Description

Amazon S3

 

S3 is a cloud-based object storage service which can be used over the Internet. It is ideally suggested for storing static content such as graphics files, documents, log files, audio, video, compressed files, and so on. Virtually, any type of data in any file format can be stored on S3. Currently, permissible object size in S3 is 0 bytes...