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Expert AWS Development

By : Atul Mistry
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Expert AWS Development

By: Atul Mistry

Overview of this book

Expert AWS Development begins with the installation of the AWS SDK and you will go on to get hands-on experience of creating an application using the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Then, you will integrate applications with AWS services such as DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SWF. Following this, you will get well versed with CI/CD workflow and work with four major phases in the release process – Source, Build, Test, and Production. Then, you will learn to apply AWS Developer tools to your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) workflow. Later, you will learn about user authentication using Amazon Cognito, and also how you can evaluate the best architecture as per your infrastructure costs. You will learn about Amazon EC2 service and will deploy an app using it. You will also deploy a practical real-world example of a CI/CD application with the Serverless Application Framework, which is known as AWS Lambda. Finally, you will learn how to build, develop, and deploy the Application using AWS Developer tools such as AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline, as per your project requirements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

A brief overview of AWS for DevOps


You will get more benefits when you use AWS for DevOps.

The following are a few points:

  • Fast start: AWS provides ready-to-use services without any setup or software installation. You must have an AWS account to use this service.
  • Fully managed: It provides fully managed services that help us to focus more on the core products and worry less about the setup of the environment, installation, and infrastructure.
  • Highly scalable: You can manage to scale from a single instance to multiple instances from AWS service. It will simplify your resources by configuring, provisioning and scaling with this services.
  • Programmable: You can use all the services from APIs, SDKs, and the AWS command-line interface. You can also use AWS CloudFormation templates to model and provision your entire AWS infrastructure and AWS resources.
  • Automation: AWS services helps to automate the build, quickly and more efficiently. Development and test workflows, deployments and container and configuration...