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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

Elastic Beanstalk best practices


Web application deployment on Elastic Beanstalk ultimately uses AWS services such as EC2, ELB, ASG, SQS, S3, and many others. Points such as scalability, security, persistent storage, fault tolerance, content delivery, software updates and patching, and connectivity should be kept in mind when designing applications to deploy on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

  • Web applications should be as stateless as possible, fault tolerant, and loosely coupled to efficiently scale out and scale in as the end users request increases and reductions respectively.
  • On AWS, security is a shared responsibility. AWS is responsible for providing as and when required physical resources to make the cloud a safe place to deploy our applications, and we as cloud users are responsible for the security of the data coming in and out of the Elastic Beanstalk environment and the security of the application.
  • Configure the SSL certificate to encrypt sensitive information transmission over a public network...