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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
Book Image

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

Creating a new AWS account


Creating a new account at AWS to start using cloud services is easy, just like opening a new email account. 

Note

The AWS interface may change from time-to-time.

The steps to create an AWS account are as follows:

  1. In a web browser, open the following URL: https://aws.amazon.com/.
  2. Click Create an AWS Account, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.10: Create a new AWS account

  1. First, select I am a new user option, provide the E-mail or mobile number of an authorized person to open a new account, and finally click on Sign in using our secure server as follows:

Figure 2.11: Signing in a new AWS account

  1. Enter Login Credentials fields such as name, email address, and password and finally click on the Create account button as follows:

Figure 2.12: Login credentials

  1. Provide Contact Information as follows:

Note

As per the actual usage, select Company Account or Personal Account. Please provide the appropriate CAPTCHA and accept the agreement after reading and understanding it...