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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

Introducing EBS


EBS is an AWS block storage service that provides block-level, persistent storage volumes for EC2 instances. EBS volumes are a highly available and reliable storage solution. An EBS volume can be attached only to the EC2 instances running in the same AZ. It provides persistent storage and it is independent from the EC2 instance. That means the data on the EBS volume remains intact even if the instance is restarted. AWS charges for the allocated EBS volume sizes, even if the volume is not attached to any instance. Also, charges are based on the allocated volume size and not based on how much data is stored on the volume. EBS volumes can be formatted into the desired block size and filesystem. It is very suitable for the read and write, such as database application or throughput of intensive workloads such as big data. Once EBS volumes are attached to EC2 instances, they are used like a normal physical drive. Multiple EBS volumes can be attached to a single EC2 instance; however...