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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 bucket


The following steps describe the process of creating a bucket using the AWS Management Console:

  1. Sign in to your AWS account and go to the S3 console or visit https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/. If you already have buckets in the account, it displays a list of the buckets or the following screenshot, stating that you do not have any buckets in the account:

Figure 8.2: S3 console

  1. Click on the Create bucket icon, as displayed in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.3: Create bucket

  1. Clicking on the Create bucket button, display a popup as shown in the following screenshot. Enter a DNS compliant bucket name. Bucket name must be unique across all existing bucket names in S3. Since S3 is a shared service, it is likely that you may not always get the bucket name you want as it might have been already taken by someone.

Select the appropriate region where you want to create the bucket from the drop-down menu as indicated in the following screenshot. If you already have some buckets, you...