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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 best practices


RDS best practices are as follows:

  • Create an individual AWS IAM user to perform DBA tasks. Grant the minimum privileges required to perform day-to-day tasks. Remove unused access key and secret key. Have a strong password policy and rotate the password periodically.
  • Before creating an RDS instance, identify Amazon RDS essential characteristics to be specified such as VPC, security group, failover or Read Replica requirement, the region and AZs to use, and storage and backup requirements.
  • Before creating an RDS instance, it is recommended to create a DB options group and DB parameter group.
  • Monitor Amazon RDS instance resources such as CPU, memory, and storage to avoid performance bottlenecks.
  • It is recommended to keep some extra buffer in memory and a storage volume while choosing RDS instance types.
  • It is recommended to test your environment for failover as it may take different lengths of time depending on the use case, instance type, and underlined data size.
  • Amazon RDS provides...