AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification and Beyond

Prepare yourself for the AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification and learn everything you need for a career in AWS development with this in-depth guide

Key Features

• Gear up for a career in AWS development with this hands-on guide
• Implement the gained knowledge effectively with the practical labs in this guide
• Get a thorough understanding of all aspects of application development with AWS

Book Description

Certifications are vital steps in the progression of the career of any developer, and the AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification is no exception. It's also not easy; to give yourself the best chance of passing it, you should use every resource you can. But if you read this book, you won't need any other resources! AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification and Beyond not only sets you up for success in the exam; it will also lay the foundations for a career working with the world's most popular cloud infrastructure.

This in-depth guide covers everything you need to know to pass the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam and allows you to test yourself as you go, with knowledge checks throughout the book. You'll also be able to prepare yourself with two mock exams at the end of the book so that you'll know exactly which topics to focus on, whether it's configuring Elastic Load Balancing for high availability, monitoring your applications with CloudWatch, or integrating authentication with Amazon Cognito (just some of the myriad topics covered in this book).

By the end of the book, you'll be ready to ace the exam, and your ability to develop and manage applications in AWS will have hit new heights, giving your career prospects a healthy nudge in the right direction.

What you will learn

• Host static website content using Amazon S3
• Explore accessibility, segmentation, and security with Amazon VPC
• Implement disaster recovery with EC2 and S3
• Provision and manage relational and non-relational AWS databases
• Deploy your applications automatically with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Use AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline for DevOps
• Manage containers with Amazon EKS and ECS
• Build serverless applications with AWS Lambda and AWS Cloud9

Who This Book Is For

If you're an IT professional or a developer who wants to pass the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam, this book is for you. Developers looking to build and manage their applications on the AWS platform will also find this book useful. No prior AWS experience is needed.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to AWS Global Infrastructure, multi-account strategies and access methods (Console, CLI and SDKs)
2. Securing access with AWS Identity and Access Management, Federation and Amazon Cognito
3. Understanding Object Storage with Amazon S3, Hybrid Storage and CloudFront CDNs
4. Designing network connectivity and routing solutions with Amazon VPC and Route53
5. Deploying applications (on AWS compute services) using Amazon EC2 with block and file storage solutions
6. Managing multiple datasets with AWS Relational and Non-Relational (NoSQL) Databases
7. Building application solutions with High Availability, Elasticity and Data Security
8. Designing deployment strategies with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
9. Getting to grips with DevOps using AWS CI/CD tools
10. Orchestrating systems with Amazon ECS and EKS
11. Building infrastructure using code with CloudFormation and Cloud Development Kit (CDKs)
12. Building serverless applications with AWS Lambda, Cloud9 IDE, and SAM
13. Designing Serverless and Event Driven application with AWS backend services
14. (N.B. Additional chapters to be confirmed upon publication)