AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide: Your one-stop solution to pass the AWS developer's certification

Cover --
Copyright --
Credits --
About the Author --
Acknowledgments --
About the Author --
About the Reviewer --
www.PacktPub.com --
Customer Feedback --
Dedication --
Table of Contents --
Preface --
Chapter 1: AWS Certified Developer --
Associate Certification --
Domain 1.0 --
AWS fundamentals --
Domain 2.0 --
Designing and developing --
Domain 3.0 --
Deployment and security --
Domain 4.0 --
Debugging --
Frequently asked questions about the exam --
Chapter 2: Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS --
History of the cloud --
Evolution of cloud computing --
Basic AWS concepts --
Benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center --
Accessing AWS services --
AWS overview --
AWS global infrastructure --
Regions and AZs --
What are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS? --
Understanding virtualization --
Virtualization types based on virtualization software --
Virtualization types based on virtualization methods --
Elasticity versus scalability --
Traditional data center resourcing --
Cloud infrastructure resourcing --
Comparing AWS cloud and on-premise data centers --
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) versus Return on Investment (ROI) --
Creating a new AWS account --
Deleting an AWS account --
AWS free tier --
Root user versus non-root user --
AWS dashboard --
Components of the AWS dashboard --
Core AWS services --
Shared security responsibility model --
AWS soft limits --
Disaster recovery with AWS --
Backup and restore --
Pilot light --
Warm standby --
Multi-site --
Chapter 3: Identity and Access Management --
Understanding the AWS root user --
Elements of IAM --
Users --
Access key and secret key --
Password policy --
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) --
Security token-based MFA --
Steps for enabling a virtual MFA device for a user --
SMS text message-based MFA --
Creating an AWS IAM user using the AWS dashboard --
Introduction to AWS CLI --
Installing AWS CLI. Getting a AWS user access key and secret key --
Configuring AWS CLI --
AWS CLI syntax --
Getting AWS CLI help --
Creating an IAM user using AWS CLI --
Groups --
Creating a new IAM group --
Creating an IAM group using CLI --
Adding existing users to a group --
IAM role --
Creating roles for an AWS service --
Creating IAM roles using AWS CLI --
Policy --
Managed policies --
Inline policies --
Resource-based policies --
Example of a resource-based policy --
IAM policy simulator --
Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) --
Integration between ADFS and the AWS console --
Web identity federation --
STS --
AWS STS and AWS regions --
Using temporary credentials in Amazon EC2 instances --
Using temporary security credentials with the AWS SDKs --
IAM best practices --
Exam tips --
Chapter 4: Virtual Private Clouds --
AWS VPCs --
Subnets --
Private subnets --
Public subnets --
IP addressing --
Private IPs --
Public IPs --
Elastic IP addresses --
Creating a VPC --
VPCs with a single public subnet --
VPCs with private and public subnets --
VPCs with public and private subnets and hardware VPN access --
VPCs with private subnet only and hardware VPN access --
Security --
Security groups --
NACLs --
Security groups versus NACLs --
Flow logs --
Controlling access --
VPC networking components --
ENI --
Route tables --
IGWs --
Egress-only IGWs --
NATs --
Comparison of NAT instances and NAT gateways --
DHCP option sets --
DNS --
VPC peering --
VPC endpoints --
ClassicLink --
VPC best practices --
Chapter 5: Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud --
Introduction to EC2 --
Pricing for EC2 --
Per-second billing for EC2 instances and EBS volumes --
EC2 instance life cycle --
Instance launch --
Instance stop and start --
Instance reboot --
Instance retirement --
Instance termination --
AMIs --
Root device types --
EC2 instance virtualization types. Creating an EC2 instance --
Changing the EC2 instance type --
Connecting to the EC2 instance --
Connecting to a Linux EC2 instance from a Microsoft Windows system --
Connecting to an EC2 instance using a PuTTY session --
Troubleshooting SSH connection issues --
EC2 instance metadata and user data --
Placement group --
Introducing EBS --
Types of EBS --
General Purpose SSD (gp2) --
Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) --
Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) --
Cold HDD (sc1) --
Encrypted EBS --
Monitoring EBS volumes with CloudWatch --
Snapshots --
EBS optimized EC2 instances --
EC2 best practices --
Chapter 6: Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing --
Introduction to the Elastic Load Balancer --
Benefits of using an ELB --
Types of ELB --
Classic Load Balancer --
Application Load Balancer --
Features of an ELB --
Step by step --
creating a Classic Load Balancer --
How an ELB works --
The working of a Classic Load Balancer --
The working of an Application Load Balancer --
ELB best practices --
Chapter 7: Monitoring with CloudWatch --
How Amazon CloudWatch works --
Elements of Amazon CloudWatch --
Namespaces --
Metrics --
Dimensions --
Statistics --
Percentile --
Alarms --
Creating a CloudWatch alarm --
Billing alerts --
CloudWatch dashboards --
Monitoring types --
basic and detailed --
CloudWatch best practices --
Chapter 8: Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront --
Amazon S3 --
Creating a bucket --
Bucket restriction and limitations --
Bucket access control --
Bucket policy --
User policies --
Transfer Acceleration --
Enabling Transfer Acceleration --
Requester Pay model --
Enabling Requestor Pays on a bucket --
Understanding objects --
Object keys --
Object key naming guide --
Object metadata --
System-metadata --
User-defined metadata --
Versioning --
Enabling versioning on a bucket --
Object tagging --
S3 storage classes. S3 Standard storage --
S3-IA storage --
S3 RRS --
Glacier --
Comparison of S3 storage classes and Glacier --
Life cycle management --
Life cycle configuration use cases --
Defining life cycle policy for a bucket --
Hosting a static website on S3 --
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) --
Using CORS in different scenarios --
Configuring CORS on a bucket --
CORS configuration example XML --
Enabling CORS on a bucket --
Cross-region replication --
Enabling cross-region replication --
Chapter 9: Other AWS Storage Options --
Amazon EFS --
AWS Storage Gateway --
File gateways --
Volume gateways --
Gateway-cached volumes --
Gateway-stored volumes --
Tape-based storage solutions --
VTL --
AWS Snowball --
AWS Snowmobile --
Chapter 10: AWS Relational Database Services --
Amazon RDS components --
DB instances --
Region and AZs --
Security groups --
DB parameter groups --
DB option groups --
RDS engine types --
Amazon Aurora DB --
Comparison of Amazon RDS Aurora with Amazon RDS MySQL --
MariaDB --
Microsoft SQL Server --
MySQL --
Oracle --
PostgreSQL --
Creating an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance --
Monitoring RDS instances --
Creating a snapshot --
Restoring a DB from a snapshot --
Changing an RDS instance type --
Amazon RDS and VPC --
Amazon RDS and high availability --
Connecting to an Amazon RDS DB instance --
Connecting to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster --
Connecting to a MariaDB instance --
Connecting to a MySQL instance --
Connecting to an Oracle instance --
RDS best practices --
Chapter 11: AWS DynamoDB --
A NoSQL Database Service --
Let's first understand what an RDBMS is --
What is SQL? --
What is NoSQL? --
Key-value pair databases --
Document databases --
Graph databases --
Wide column databases --
When to use NoSQL databases? --
SQL versus NoSQL --
Introducing DynamoDB --
DynamoDB components --
Primary key --
Secondary indexes --
DynamoDB Streams. Read consistency model --
Eventually consistent reads --
Strong consistent reads --
Naming rules and data types --
Naming rules --
Data types --
Scalar data types --
Document types --
Set types --
Creating a DynamoDB table --
basic steps --
Adding a sort key while creating a DynamoDB table --
Using advanced settings while creating a DynamoDB table --
Creating secondary indexes --
table settings --
Provisioned capacity --
table settings --
Auto Scaling --
table settings --
Methods of accessing DynamoDB --
DynamoDB console --
DynamoDB CLI --
Working with API --
DynamoDB provisioned throughput --
Read capacity units --
Write capacity units --
Calculating table throughput --
DynamoDB partitions and data distribution --
Data distribution --
partition key --
Data Distribution --
partition key and sort key --
DynamoDB global and LSI --
The difference between GSI and LSI --
DynamoDB query --
Query with AWS CLI --
DynamoDB Scan --
Reading an item from a DynamoDB table --
Writing an item to a DynamoDB table --
PutItem --
UpdateItem --
DeleteItem --
Conditional writes --
User authentication and access control --
Managing policies --
DynamoDB API permissions --
DynamoDB best practices --
Chapter 12: Amazon Simple Queue Service --
Why use SQS? --
How do queues work? --
Main features of SQS --
Types of queues --
Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) --
Queue attributes --
Creating a queue --
Sending a message in a queue --
Viewing/deleting a message from a queue --
Purging a queue --
Deleting a queue --
Subscribing a queue to a topic --
Adding user permissions to a queue --
SQS limits --
Queue monitoring and logging --
CloudWatch metrics available for SQS --
Logging SQS API actions --
SQS security --
Authentication --
SSE --
Chapter 13: Simple Notification Service --
Introduction to Amazon SNS --
Amazon SNS fanout --
Application and system alerts --
Mobile device push notifications.