AWS Certified Developer - Associate Tutorial - Step 2 [Video]

Raluca Bolovan
Friday, April 28, 2017

Learn how to leverage scalable databases and application services to accelerate your application on AWS

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ISBN 139781788294942

Course Length4 hours 23 minutes

Video Description

This course teaches you all you need to know to start working with the database and application service options available through AWS. We explore technologies such as DynamoDB, Route53, and Cloudformation.

We’ll demonstrate how to use SNS to send new notifications, create an Elastic Beanstalk application, and get started with the DynamoDB database. You’ll understand what your options are for routing on Route53, know when to use the application services, and see how to begin writing infrastructure as code using Cloudformation. By the end of this course, you will feel confident to start creating and using DynamoDB tables and indexes

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This course will show you all you need to know to get started working with the database and application service options available through AWS. In this course we will cover technologies like DynamoDB, Route53 and Cloudformation. It will demonstrate how to use SNS for sending new notifications, create an Elastic Beanstalk application and get started with the DynamoDB database. At the end of this course, you will feel confident to start creating and using DynamoDB tables and indexes, understand what your options are for routing on Route53, know when to use the application services and how to begin writing infrastructure as code using Cloudformation.

Databases and DynamoDB

The Course Overview

Databases Essentials and Introduction to DynamoDB

Creating a DynamoDB and Its Associated Indexes

Scanning Versus Querying

Provisioning Throughput

Web Identity Authentication and DynamoDB

Quiz –DynamoDB

Route53 and DNS

Introduction to DNS and Registering a Domain

Simple Routing Example

Weighted and Latency-Based Routing

Failover and Geo-Based Routing

Quiz –Route53

Application Services

Introduction to the Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Exam Tips

Introduction to the Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Exam Tips (Continued)

Hands on with SNS

Introduction to the Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

Quiz – Application Services

Cloudformation and Elastic Beanstalk

Introduction to Cloudformation

Cloudformation Example

Introduction to Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk Example

Quiz – Cloudformation and Elastic Beanstalk

What You Will Learn

Get an overview of databases on AWS
See DynamoDB and find out how to use it
Be introduced to Route53 and the routing types supported
Get an introduction to SQS, SNS, and SWF
Work with Cloudformation and Elastic Beanstalk

Authors

Raluca Bolovan

Colibri Ltd. is a technology consultancy company founded in 2015 by James Cross and Ingrid Funie. The company works to help their clients navigate the rapidly changing and complex world of emerging technologies, with deep expertise in areas such as Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing.

Over the past few years, they have worked with some of the world's largest and most prestigious companies, including a tier 1 investment bank, a leading management consultancy group, and one of the world's most popular soft drinks companies, helping each of them to better make sense of their data and process it in more intelligent ways.

The company lives by their moto: Data -> Intelligence -> Action.

Our author, Raluca Bolovan is a DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and AWS Certified Developer.

She graduated with a first class honours Meng degree in Computing (Software Engineering) from Imperial College London. She worked in Investment Banking for three years with technologies such as Python, Java, and Spring. She then moved into the FinTech industry and has written microservices running on Docker on AWS.

Raluca has several years of experience architecting and implementing new solutions on the AWS platform. She has built, among others, a serverless ETL and data warehousing solution using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, and S3 as the principal components.

She is also interested in new technologies. She has worked in her career so far in most aspects of technology roles, ranging from front-end development with JavaScript and Django to back-end with microservices in Java 8 and Postgres and more recently DevOps on AWS. If the technology could be the solution for the task at hand, she will definitely try it.