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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125629

Length 600 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Bhavin Parmar

Vipul Tankariya

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

Queue monitoring and logging

Monitoring SQS queues plays a vital role in an application's lifecycle. There are many functions that are dependent on monitoring, using CloudWatch and relevant triggers. For example, you monitor the size of a queue and define a trigger to automatically scale up EC2 instances with an Auto Scaling group. Similarly, you can scale the number of instances serving the consumer process in case the size of a queue is smaller. Considering the criticality of monitoring with SQS, CloudWatch and SQS are integrated so that you can easily view and analyze various CloudWatch metrics for SQS queues. Queue metrics can be viewed and analyzed using an SQS console, CloudWatch console, programmatically using APIs, or using the CLI.

Amazon automatically gathers CloudWatch metrics for an SQS queue and pushes it to CloudWatch with an interval of five minutes. Amazon...

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Authors (2)

Parmar

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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Tankariya

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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