Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud service provider today, ahead of competitors such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. It is seen by many as the standard for functional, reliable, interoperable, and affordable cloud services. Developers need to understand what it means to develop on and migrate to the cloud—and comprehend the overall landscape of AWS before diving into the platform. This training course provides a high-level overview just for developers, focusing on the AWS features and services of the most interest to them. Instructor Bear Cahill introduces AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Elastic Bean Stalk, S3, SQS, IAM, EC2, CloudFront, CloudFormation, and many more key features and services.

Note: The topics covered here are important prerequisites for the AWS Certified Developer - Associates exam.

Topics include
Evaluating AWS pricing and services
Setting up security: users, roles, groups, policies, and identity pools
Developing with the AWS SDK
Adding storage with S3 and DynamoDB
Using AWS for messaging
Deploying to AWS
Monitoring AWS