AWS Certified Developer Associate Guide
Second Edition
Your one-stop solution to passing the AWS developer's 2019 (DVA-C01) certification
Vipul Tankariya
Bhavin Parmar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
AWS Certified Developer Associate GuideSecond Edition
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About the authors
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.
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.
About the reviewers
Amado Gramajo is a passionate technologist with over 15 years of experience working for Fortune 100 companies and leading virtualization, platform migrations, and, currently, cloud migrations. He holds multiple professional and specialty AWS certifications.
Gajanan Chandgadkar has more than 12 years of IT experience. He has spent six years in the US, helping large enterprises architect, migrate, and deploy applications in AWS and Azure. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over six years, and on Azure for the past year. He is a certified solutions architect professional and a certified DevOps professional with seven certifications in trending technologies. Gajanan is also a technology enthusiast who has extensive interest and experience in different topics, such as application development, container technology, and CD. Currently, he is working with Happiest Minds Technologies as a DevOps architect, and has also worked with the Wipro Technologies Corporation in the past.
Adrin Mukherjee is an AWS and Google Cloud-certified architect and loves anything and everything related to cloud computing. He has over 14 years of IT experience and is currently working as a senior architect for a Fortune 500 company.
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Preface
This book will focus on the revised version of the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam. The June 2019 version of this exam guide inclu des all the recent services and offerings from Amazon that benefit developers.
AWS Certified Developer Associat e Guide, Second Edition starts with a quick introduction to AWS and its prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book will describe Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Next, this book will teach you about microservices, serverless architecture, security best practices, advanced deployment methods, and more. Moving ahead, we will take you through AWS DynamoDB (a NoSQL database service), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and CloudFormation. Finally, this book will help you to understand Elastic Beanstalk and will also walk you through AWS Lambda.
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