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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

Introduction to EC2


The technology is evolving, demand is increasing, competition is increasing, and organizations are continuously coming up with innovative solutions to serve their customers. This entire ecosystem is dependent on computing power. It has become critical for organizations to arrange highly available and reliable computing resources to run their businesses. Amazon's EC2 is a compute service that provides an on-demand and scalable computing service in the cloud. It eliminates the need for upfront investment on hardware with the pay as you go model. With such flexibility in provisioning computing resources, it makes it possible to develop and deploy applications faster. You can provision as many EC2 instances as you want, be it a single instance or tens or hundreds or thousands of servers based on your need. You pay only for what you use. If you do not require the provisioned instances, you can terminate them at will. You can scale up your fleet of servers or scale them down...