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AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide

You're reading from   AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide Your one-stop solution to passing the AWS developer's certification

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125629
Length 600 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhavin Parmar Bhavin Parmar
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Preface 1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS 3. Identity and Access Management 4. Virtual Private Clouds 5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud 6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing 7. Monitoring with CloudWatch 8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront 9. Other AWS Storage Options 10. AWS Relational Database Services 11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service 12. Amazon Simple Queue Service 13. Simple Notification Service 14. Simple Workflow Service 15. AWS CloudFormation 16. Elastic Beanstalk 17. Overview of AWS Lambda 18. Mock Tests

Basic AWS concepts


AWS is a public cloud. It provides a range of IT services that can be used as building blocks for creating cutting-edge, robust, and scalable enterprise-grade solutions. It can be used to host everything from simple static websites to complex three-tier architectures, scientific applications to modern ERPs, online training to live broadcasting events (that is, sports events, political elections, and so on).

According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant, AWS is a leader in cloud IaaS (this term is explained further on in this chapter). AWS is way ahead of its competitors after it pioneered the cloud IaaS market in 2006:

Figure 2.2: Gartner's Magic Quadrant, rates various public cloud providers

Image source : https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2G2O5FC&ct=150519

The Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a series of market research reports published by Gartner, the United States-based research and advisory firm. It aims to provide a qualitative analysis into a market, its direction, maturity...

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