[Dummies 01] • Amazon Web Services for Developers For Dummies by Mueller, John Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Introduction

About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

Part 1: Discovering the AWS Development Environment

Chapter 1: Starting Your AWS Adventure

Defining the AWS Cloud Discovering IaaS Determining Why You Should Use AWS Considering the AWS-Supported Platforms

Chapter 2: Obtaining Development Access to Amazon Web Services

Discovering the Limits of Free Services Considering the Hardware Requirements Getting Signed Up Testing Your Setup

Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Services

Getting a Quick Overview of Free-Tier Services Matching AWS Services to Your Application Considering AWS Security Issues

Part 2: Starting the Development Process

Chapter 4: Considering AWS Communication Strategies

Defining the Major Communication Standards Understanding How REST Works

Chapter 5: Creating a Development Environment

Choosing a Platform Obtaining and Installing Python Working with the Identity and Access Management Console Installing the Command Line Interface Software Configuring S3 Using CLI Configuring S3 Using Node.js Configuring S3 Using a Desktop Application

Chapter 6: Creating a Virtual Server Using EC2

Getting to Know the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Working with Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volumes Discovering Images and Instances

Part 3: Performing Basic Development Tasks

Chapter 7: Understanding AWS Input/Output

Considering the Input/Output Options Working with JSON Working with XML Working with Amazon API Gateway

Chapter 8: Developing Web Apps Using Elastic Beanstalk

Considering Elastic Beanstalk (EB) Features Deploying an EB Application Updating an EB Application Removing Unneeded Applications Monitoring Your Application Using Amazon CloudWatch

Chapter 9: Developing Batch Processes and Scripts

Considering the Batch-Processing and Script Options Performing Batch Processing Locally Developing Scripts Using Scripts Locally Interacting with aws-shell

Chapter 10: Responding to Events with Lambda

Considering the Lambda Features Starting the Lambda Console Creating a Basic Lambda Application Interacting with Simple Queue Services (SQS)

Part 4: Interacting with Databases

Chapter 11: Getting Basic DBMS Using RDS

Considering the Relational Database Service (RDS) Features Managing RDS Creating a Database Server Adding Support to Applications Configuring Load Balancing and Scaling

Chapter 12: Programming Techniques for AWS and MySQL

Interacting with RDS Working with MySQL Code Working with the MySQL/RDS Tables Performing Data Uploads Performing Data Downloads

Chapter 13: Gaining NoSQL Access Using DynamoDB

Considering the DynamoDB Features Downloading a Local Copy of DynamoDB Creating a Basic DynamoDB Setup Developing a Basic Database Performing Queries

Part 5: The Part of Tens

Chapter 14: Ten Ways to Create AWS Applications Quickly

Working at the Console Using Example Source Code Combining Trial-and-Error Techniques Watching the Videos Attending the Webinars Discovering Others Efforts Depending on Peer Support Working with Blogs Using Alternative Sources Going Back to Tutorials

Chapter 15: Ten AWS Tools Every Developer Needs

Obtaining Additional Amazon Offerings Partnering with a Third Party Developing New Knowledge Using Bitnami Developer Tools- Relying on Device Emulators

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