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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617313
Pages 812 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vipul Tankariya Vipul Tankariya
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Vipul Tankariya has a broad range of experience in cloud consulting, development, and training. He has worked with a number of customers across the globe, solving real-life business problems in terms of technology and strategy. He is also a public speaker at various AWS events and meetups. He has not only extensively worked on AWS, but is also certified in five AWS certifications. He is an accomplished senior cloud consultant and technologist with more than 21 years of experience. He is focused on strategic thought leadership concentrated around next-generation cloud-based solutions. He has a lot of experience in working on DevOps, CI/CD, and automation at each level of the delivery lifecycle of products, solutions, and services on the cloud.
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Bhavin Parmar Bhavin Parmar
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Bhavin Parmar has a broad range of experience in cloud consulting, development, and training. He actively participates in solving real-life business problems. He has not only extensively worked on AWS, but he is also certified in AWS and Red Hat. This book combines his AWS experience in solving real-life business problems with his hands-on deployment and development experience. Bhavin is an accomplished technologist and senior cloud consultant with more than 11 years of experience. He is focused on strategic thought leadership concentrated around next-generation cloud-based and DevOps solutions. He has also been instrumental in setting up cloud migration strategies for customers, building enterprise-class cloud solutions, and AWS training.
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Preface 1. Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification 2. Understanding the Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services 3. Identity and Access Management (IAM) 4. Virtual Private Clouds 5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 6. Handling Application Traffic with ELB 7. Monitoring with CloudWatch 8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront 9. Other AWS Storage Options 10. AWS Relational Database Service 11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service 12. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) 13. Simple Notification Service (SNS) 14. AWS Simple Workflow Service (SWF) 15. CloudFormation Overview 16. Understanding Elastic Beanstalk 17. Overview of AWS Lambda 18. Key Management Services 19. Working with AWS Kinesis 20. Working with AWS CodeBuild 21. Getting Started with AWS CodeDeploy 22. Working with AWS CodePipeline 23. CI/CD on AWS 24. Serverless Computing 25. Amazon Route 53 26. ElastiCache Overview 27. Mock Tests 28. Assessments 29. Another Book You May Enjoy

EC2 best practices

The following list summarizes EC2 best practices:

  • Ensure that unused EC2 instances are stopped and, if not required, terminate them. This reduces unnecessary costs in the monthly AWS billing.
  • Closely observe snapshots and AMIs, regularly perform housekeeping, and discard all the AMIs and snapshots that are not required. It is recommended that you automate and monitor this process.
  • It is equally important to perform a periodical AMI and snapshots restore to make sure that the recovery process is performing within the stipulated time.
  • Ensure that an instance type is set as per the requirements of the application hosted on the instance. It is recommended that you optimize the instance type according to application performance.
  • To match a seasonal spike in compute requirement, plan for autoscaling and load balancing.
  • Divide your application load into multiple...
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Vipul Tankariya has a broad range of experience in cloud consulting, development, and training. He has worked with a number of customers across the globe, solving real-life business problems in terms of technology and strategy. He is also a public speaker at various AWS events and meetups. He has not only extensively worked on AWS, but is also certified in five AWS certifications. He is an accomplished senior cloud consultant and technologist with more than 21 years of experience. He is focused on strategic thought leadership concentrated around next-generation cloud-based solutions. He has a lot of experience in working on DevOps, CI/CD, and automation at each level of the delivery lifecycle of products, solutions, and services on the cloud.
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Bhavin Parmar has a broad range of experience in cloud consulting, development, and training. He actively participates in solving real-life business problems. He has not only extensively worked on AWS, but he is also certified in AWS and Red Hat. This book combines his AWS experience in solving real-life business problems with his hands-on deployment and development experience. Bhavin is an accomplished technologist and senior cloud consultant with more than 11 years of experience. He is focused on strategic thought leadership concentrated around next-generation cloud-based and DevOps solutions. He has also been instrumental in setting up cloud migration strategies for customers, building enterprise-class cloud solutions, and AWS training.
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