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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

Getting started using Elastic Beanstalk


With the help of the following steps, an easy Elastic Beanstalk web application can be created, viewed, deployed, updated, and terminated.

Step 1 – signing in to the AWS account

Understand the following guidelines to complete step 1:

  1. Sign in to the AWS account with the IAM user having sufficient privileges to work with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In addition to the privileges to manipulate resources at Elastic Beanstalk, the IAM user also requires privileges to create, modify, and delete underlying resources in various AWS services such as EC2, ELB, S3, Auto Scaling, and so on. The requirements of such AWS service privileges totally vary from application to application.
  1. Make sure the appropriate AWS region is selected from the right-hand side top toolbar, as shown in Figure 16.4:

Figure 16.4: Select the appropriate AWS region to deploy custom web application using Elastic Beanstalk.

  1. From the AWS dashboard, select Elastic Beanstalk from the Compute group, as shown...