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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):

Tankariya

Parmar

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

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

Index

Elements of IAM

It is essential to understand a few basic IAM terminologies, to effectively manage real-life organizational users and their permissions to access AWS resources as per their roles and responsibilities. The following list briefly describes these terminologies and subsequently goes into the details of each of the elements of IAM:

User: A user is a person or an application that requires access to various AWS resources to perform designated tasks. A user can access AWS resources with either a username and password or with an access key and secret key.
Access key: An access key is a 20-character alphanumeric key that acts as a user ID.
Secret key: A secret key is a 40-character alphanumeric key that acts as a password or secret key. The access key and secret key are used together for initiating API, SDK, and CLI authentication.
Password policy: Password policy specifies the complexity requirement of a password and defines the mandatory rotation period for a password associated with...