AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide – Associate (DVA–C01) Exam: Sybex Study Guide

ABOUT THE AUTHORS The AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide - Associate (DVA-C01) Exam is written by a team of leading AWS subject-matter experts. AWS offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment products and services. These offerings help businesses scale and build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability.

Introduction xxix Assessment Test xxxv Chapter 1 Introduction to AWS Cloud API 1 Introduction to AWS 2 Calling an AWS Cloud Service 5 Working with Regions 9 API Credentials and AWS Identity and Access Management 14 Summary 24 Exam Essentials 24 Resources to Review 25 Exercises 26 Review Questions 33 Chapter 2 Introduction to Compute and Networking 37 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 38 Running Applications on Instances 44 Customizing the Network 51 Managing Your Resources 64 Developer Tools 66 Summary 66 Exam Essentials 67 Resources to Review 68 Exercises 69 Review Questions 80 Chapter 3 Hello, Storage 85 Introduction to AWS Storage 86 Storage Fundamentals 87 AWS Block Storage Services 92 AWS Object Storage Services 99 AWS File Storage Services 136 Storage Comparisons 142 Cloud Data Migration 145 Summary 154 Exam Essentials 154 Resources to Review 159 Exercises 162 Review Questions 170 Chapter 4 Hello, Databases 175 Introduction to Databases 176 Relational Databases 178 Nonrelational Databases 195 Data Warehouse 217 In-Memory Data Stores 226 Graph Databases 230 Cloud Database Migration 232 Running Your Own Database on Amazon Elastic Compliance and Security 236 Summary 237 Exam Essentials 237 Resources to Review 239 Exercises 242 Review Questions 256 Chapter 5 Encryption on AWS 259 Introduction to Encryption 260 AWS Key Management Service 260 AWS CloudHSM 262 Controlling the Access Keys 263 Summary 273 Exam Essentials 273 Resources to Review 274 Exercises 275 Review Questions 279 Chapter 6 Deployment Strategies 281 Deployments on the AWS Cloud 282 AWS Elastic Beanstalk 290 Deployment Strategies 299 Monitoring and Troubleshooting 303 Summary 307 Exam Essentials 307 Resources to Review 308 Exercises 309 Review Questions 313 Chapter 7 Deployment as Code 317 Introduction to AWS Code Services 318 Using AWS CodePipeline to Automate Deployments 320 Using AWS CodeCommit as a Source Repository 332 Using AWS CodeBuild to Create Build Artifacts 344 Using AWS CodeDeploy to Deploy Applications 352 Summary 371 Exam Essentials 372 Resources to Review 373 Exercises 374 Review Questions 377 Chapter 8 Infrastructure as Code 381 Introduction to Infrastructure as Code 382 Infrastructure as Code 382 Using AWS CloudFormation to Deploy Infrastructure 383 Summary 432 Exam Essentials 434 Resources to Review 436 Exercises 437 Review Questions 440 Chapter 9 Configuration as Code 445 Introduction to Configuration as Code 446 Using AWS OpsWorks Stacks to Deploy Applications 447 Using Amazon Elastic Container Service to Deploy Containers 471 Summary 483 Exam Essentials 485 Resources to Review 487 Exercises 488 Review Questions 491 Chapter 10 Authentication and Authorization 495 Introduction to Authentication and Authorization 496 Summary 508 Exam Essentials 509 Resources to Review 509 Exercises 510 Review Questions 517 Chapter 11 Refactor to Microservices 519 Introduction to Refactor to Microservices 521 Amazon Simple Queue Service 523 Amazon Simple Notification Service 534 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams 540 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose 543 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics 544 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams 545 Amazon DynamoDB Streams 546 AWS IoT Device Management 547 Amazon MQ 550 AWS Step Functions 551 Summary 568 Exam Essentials 569 Resources to Review 570 Exercises 573 Review Questions 582 Chapter 12 Serverless Compute 585 Introduction to Serverless Compute 586 AWS Lambda 586 AWS Lambda Functions 588 Inside the AWS Lambda Function 593 Configuring the AWS Lambda Function 596 Invoking AWS Lambda Functions 601 Monitoring AWS Lambda Functions 602 Summary 605 Exam Essentials 605 Resources to Review 606 Exercises 607 Review Questions 618 Chapter 13 Serverless Applications 621 Introduction to Serverless Applications 622 Web Server with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Presentation Tier) 622 Dynamic Data with Amazon API Gateway (Logic or App Tier) 627 User Authentication with Amazon Cognito 634 Standard Three-Tier vs. the Serverless Stack 640 Amazon Aurora Serverless 642 AWS Serverless Application Model 643 AWS SAM CLI 645 AWS Serverless Application Repository 647 Serverless Application Use Cases 647 Summary 647 Exam Essentials 649 Resources to Review 650 Exercises 651 Review Questions 660 Chapter 14 Stateless Application Patterns 663 Introduction to the Stateless Application Pattern 664 Amazon DynamoDB 664 Amazon ElastiCache 739 Amazon Simple Storage Service 747 Amazon Elastic File System 773 Summary 781 Exam Essentials 782 Resources to Review 785 Exercises 786 Review Questions 793 Chapter 15 Monitoring and Troubleshooting 797 Introduction to Monitoring and Troubleshooting 798 Amazon CloudWatch 800 AWS CloudTrail 818 AWS X-Ray 820 Summary 823 Exam Essentials 823 Resources to Review 825 Exercises 826 Review Questions 829 Chapter 16 Optimization 833 Introduction to Optimization 834 Cost Optimization: Everyone's Responsibility 834 Right Sizing 838 Using Instance Reservations 840 Using Spot Instances 843 Using AWS Auto Scaling 845 Using Containers 849 Using Serverless Approaches 850 Optimizing Storage 851 Optimizing Data Transfer 858 Relational Databases and Amazon DynamoDB 859 Monitoring Costs 864 Monitoring Performance 868 Summary 869 Exam Essentials 871 Resources to Review 874 Exercises 876 Review Questions 881 Appendix Answers to Review Questions 885 Index 917