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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074452

Length 638 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Adam Book

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Table of Contents (31) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Amazon Web Service Pillars FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Fundamental AWS Services

4. Chapter 3: Identity and Access Management and Working with Secrets in AWS

5. Chapter 4: Amazon S3 Blob Storage

6. Chapter 5: Amazon DynamoDB

7. Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code

8. Chapter 6: Understanding CI/CD and the SDLC

9. Chapter 7: Using CloudFormation Templates to Deploy Workloads

10. Chapter 8: Creating Workloads with CodeCommit and CodeBuild

11. Chapter 9: Deploying Workloads with CodeDeploy and CodePipeline

12. Chapter 10: Using AWS Opsworks to Manage and Deploy your Application Stack

13. Chapter 11: Using Elastic Beanstalk to Deploy your Application

14. Chapter 12: Lambda Deployments and Versioning

15. Chapter 13: Blue Green Deployments

16. Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads

17. Chapter 14: CloudWatch and X-Ray's Role in DevOps

18. Chapter 15: CloudWatch Metrics and Amazon EventBridge

19. Chapter 16: Various Logs Generated (VPC Flow Logs, Load Balancer Logs, CloudTrail Logs)

20. Chapter 17: Advanced and Enterprise Logging Scenarios

21. Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies

22. Chapter 18: Autoscaling and Lifecycle Hooks

23. Chapter 19: Protecting Data in Flight and at Rest

24. Chapter 20: Enforcing Standards and Compliance with System Manger's Role and AWS Config

25. Chapter 21: Using Amazon Inspector to Check your Environment

26. Chapter 22: Other Policy and Standards Services to Know

27. Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

28. Chapter 23: Overview of the DevOps Professional Certification Test

29. Chapter 24: Practice Exam 1

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Understanding the basis and background of DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a NoSQL database. This means that it is not only SQL and, more importantly, that DynamoDB doesn't need a fully structured schema to enter data. Its flexibility and performance are what drives many to DynamoDB, along with its pay-per-use pricing model and high availability and scaling.

DynamoDB origins

In 2007, Amazon published a whitepaper authored by the future AWS CTO, Werner Volgels, and others called Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store.

You can still find this paper today at https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf.

As Amazon built out its e-commerce platform, it was trying to solve issues such as the following: