Developing on AWS course material links

Please not that this is not a prep course for the “AWS Certified Developer - Associate” certification!

Full name: Developing on AWS

Product code: 200-DODEVA-45

These links are based on the course version 4.5.8.

Online and classroom course options: Developing on AWS

The official course material: eVantage Bookshelf (VitalSource)

Additional material: AWS Skill Builder

Module 1: Course Overview

Websites

• Build modern applications on AWS
• Microservices

Videos

• Modern Application Architectures
• The transformative power of modern applications
• Building Modern Apps with AWS: Choosing the Approach that Works for You
• Key Criteria When Choosing an Modern App Development Approach on AWS
• Architectures and Strategies for Building Modern Applications on AWS

Books

• Build web and mobile apps faster
• Three pathways for modern app development

Module 2: Building a Web Application on AWS

Websites

• Amazon API Gateway
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon DynamoDB
• AWS Software Development Kits
• Amazon Cognito
• Amazon Polly

Module 3: Getting Started with Development on AWS

Websites

• Amazon S3 API Reference
• Create bucket API Reference
• HTTP status codes
• Signature Version 4 Signing Process
• Download AWS CLI
• AWS CLI Command Reference
• Working with DynamoDB tables .NET
• Working with DynamoDB tables Boto3
• Waiters in the AWS SDK for Java
• Error Handling with DynamoDB
• Handling Exceptions in Java
• Logging with the AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for .NET, Advanced configuration
• Enabling Metrics for the AWS SDK for Java
• Locking API Versions (JavaSript)
• Language support in the AWS Cloud9 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• CodeWhisperer user guide
• Getting started with CodeWhisperer

Videos

• CodeWhisperer demo
• CodeWhisperer security scan demo
• Getting Started with SDKs
• Introduction to AWS Cloud9

Courses

• Getting Started with CodeWhisperer on AWS Skill Builder

AWS SDK

Python

• Boto3 documentation
• Boto3 quickstart

.NET

• NuGet
• .NET quickstart

Java

• Developer guide

Other

• AWS Amplify
• AWS SDK for Ruby
• AWS SDK for JavaScript in Node.js
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Swift
• AWS SDK for Rust
• AWS SDK for Kotlin

API references

• AWS CLI
• AWS SDK for Python (Boto3)
• AWS SDK for Java
• AWS SDK for .NET

Module 4: Getting Started with Permissions (IAM)

Websites

• IAM overview
• IAM User Guide
• IAM Identities
• Creating your first IAM admin user and user group
• Identity-based policies and resource-based policies
• AWS IAM User Guide
• IAM roles
• AWS service role
• Role delegation
• Common IAM scenarios
• Policy evaluation logic
• CLI Configuration and credential file settings
• PowerUserAccess policy (requires you to log in)
• AdministratorAccess policy (requires you to log in)
• Configure the AWS CLI
• Setting AWS credentials for the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains
• Set up AWS Credentials for Eclipse
• Creating profiles for your AWS credentials in Visual Studio
• Setting up your AWS credentials Visual Studio Code
• Global settings for config and credentials files
• Supported environment variables
• Working with AWS Credentials in Java
• Configuring AWS Credentials .NET
• Credentials in Boto3
• Signature Version 4 signing process
• Signing AWS API requests
• Temporary security credentials in IAM
• Actions in the AWS Security Token Service
• Using temporary security credentials with the AWS SDKs
• instance profiles and temporary credentials
• Calling AWS services from an environment in AWS Cloud9
• Create and store permanent access credentials in an Environment
• EC2 environments compared with SSH environments in AWS Cloud9
• Setting the JVM TTL for DNS Name Lookups
• Environment variables to configure the AWS CLI
• Error retries and exponential backoff
• Cross-account access
• Testing IAM policies with the IAM policy simulator

Videos

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Become an IAM Policy Master in 60 Minutes or Less (SEC316-R1)
• How to use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation
• Use IAM Access Analyzer Policy Validation to Set Secure and Functional Policies
• Workforce identity on AWS Primer Series playlist (at lest some videos)

Module 5: Getting Started with Storage (S3)

Websites

• S3 overview
• S3 User Guide
• EBS User Guide
• EFS User Guide
• FSx documentation
• S3 Express One Zone
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration speed demo
• Bucket restrictions and limitations
• Organizing objects using prefixes
• Tagging Best Practices
• Access policy guidelines
• Common S3 Request Headers
• Common S3 Response Headers

Videos

• Getting started with Amazon S3 - Demo

Module 6: Processing Your Storage Operations (S3)

Websites

• AWS CLI multipart upload
• Using Amazon S3 storage classes
• S3 Select
• Static website hosting on Amazon S3
• CloudFront and HTTPS
• Using cross-origin resource sharing CORS
• CORS configuration

Videos

• Dive deep on Amazon S3 (STG314)

Module 7: Getting Started with Databases (DynamoDB)

Websites

• DynamoDB overview
• DynamoDB Developer Guide
• Partitions and Data Distribution
• Working with Tables and Data in DynamoDB
• DynamoDB data model
• DynamoDB limits
• Secondary indexes
• DynamoDB Adaptive Capacity
• NoSQL Workbench
• Setting up DynamoDB Local
• PartiQL
• PartiQL for DynamoDB
• Overview of AWS SDK Support for DynamoDB
• Creating service clients in Java

Videos

• Advanced DynamoDB design patterns
• DynamoDB core concept videos
• deepdives.eu podcast on Microservices

Module 8: Processing Your Database Operations (DynamoDB)

Websites

• Service, Account, and Table Quotas
• PutItem
• BatchWriteItem
• Paginating Table Query Results
• Parallel Scan
• Parallel Scan best practices
• Working with DynamoDB Tables in Java

Videos

• Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
• How to use single-table DynamoDB design with GraphQL
• GSI vs Scan - Amazon DynamoDB Nuggets
• Build with DynamoDB

Module 9: Processing Your Application Logic (Lambda)

Websites

• Lambda overview
• Lambda Operator Guide
• Best practices for working with AWS Lambda functions
• Schedule AWS Lambda functions using EventBridge
• Lambda SnapStart
• AddPermission
• AWS Lambda permissions
• CreateEventSourceMapping
• Using Lambda with the Toolkit for Eclipse
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
• AWS Toolkit for PyCharm in the Jet Brains Marketplace
• Lambda quotas
• Lambda runtimes
• AWS Lambda Power Tuning
• Lambda Cold Starts benchmark

Videos

• AWS Serverless Innovation Day: AWS On Air ft. Best practices for AWS Lambda
• Best practices for serverless developers (SVS401)
• Demystifying and mitigating AWS Lambda cold starts (COM305)
• Benchmarking AWS Lambda cold starts (COM212)

Module 10: Managing the APIs (API Gateway)

Websites

• API Gateway overview
• API Gateway Developer Guide
• Setting up a stage for a REST API
• Creating and using usage plans with API keys
• Throttle API requests for better throughput
• API Gateway quotas
• Access management
• Setting up data transformations for REST APIs
• Generating an SDK for a REST API in API Gateway
• mock integrations
• API caching
• Troubleshooting Amazon API Gateway
• Security in Amazon API Gateway
• Integration passthrough behavior
• Mapping templates with Velocity Template Language (VTL)
• VTL best practices
• Swagger extensions
• Set up mock integrations in API Gateway
• Setting up stage variables
• Performing canary deployments

Videos

• Building APIs with Amazon API Gateway

Module 11: Building a Modern Application

Websites

• AWS Step Functions overview
• AWS Step Functions Developer Guide
• Microservices
• Serverless on AWS
• Iterating a Loop Using Lambda

Videos

• Adrian Cockcroft on the Evolution of Business Logic from Monoliths, to Microservices, to Functions
• Building Microservices on AWS (CON208)
• Building next-generation applications with event-driven architecture (API302)
• When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!) • Sam Newman & Martin Fowler • GOTO 2020
• deepdives.eu podcast on Microservices

Courses

• Advanced Developing on AWS

Books

• Building Microservices, 2nd Edition O’Reilly Amazon UK
• Monolith To Microservices Video overview O’Reilly Amazon UK

Module 12: Granting Access to Your Application Users

Websites

• Amazon Cognito overview
• Amazon Cognito Developer Guide
• Integrating Amazon Cognito With Web and Mobile Apps
• Understanding Amazon Cognito Authentication Part 1
• Understanding Amazon Cognito Authentication Part 2
• Understanding Amazon Cognito Authentication Part 3
• Understanding Amazon Cognito Authentication Part 4
• Amazon Cognito Resources

Videos

• How to use Amazon Cognito user pool advanced security features
• Amazon Cognito: SAML federation, IdP-initiated Login, and SAML Encryption
• Passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito

Module 13: Deploying Your Application

Websites

• What is DevOps?
• DevOps tools
• AWS SAM template anatomy
• Controlling access to an API with API Gateway resource policies
• Controlling access to API Gateway APIs
• Installing the AWS SAM CLI
• Create a deployment configuration with CodeDeploy
• Deployment configurations on Lambda

Videos

• deepdives.eu podcast on DevOps
• Using DevOps, Microservices, & Serverless to Accelerate Innovation (SRV325)
• Enterprise DevOps: Patterns of Efficiency

Module 14: Observing Your Application

Websites

• CloudWatch User Guide
• AWS X-Ray Developer Guide
• CloudWatch alarms
• Metrics collected by the CloudWatch agent

Videos

• AWS Monitoring and Observability
• Observability for Modern Applications

Module 15: Course Wrap-Up

Websites

• Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda
• How AWS Pricing Works
• Back to Basics
• AWS Support
• AWS Certification exam preparation
• AWS Certification
• AWS Certification exams
• AWS Recertification
• Schedule an Exam
• AWS Ramp-Up Guides

Courses

• Advanced Developing on AWS
• Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS
• Build Modern Applications with AWS NoSQL Databases
• Getting Started with DevOps on AWS
• AWS Cloud Development Kit Primer
• AWS Skill Builder
• AWS Skill Builder courses
• AWS Builder Labs
• AWS Workshops
• Classroom training

Videos

• Tech Talks