AWS Developer Associate CheatSheet

• CodeCommit is a service which lets your store your Git repositories in the cloud.

• CodeCommit is in scope of many compliance programs eg. HIPPA

• Amazon Certification Manager (ACM) lets you provision, manage, and deploy public and private

• SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services

• ACM handles two kinds of Certificates

• Public certificates provided by ACM FREE!

• Private - certificates you import ($400/ month)

• ACM can be attached to API Gateway, CloudFront, EB or ELB

• ACM is not end-to-end in-transit encryption since it terminates before reaching the instance

• Code Development Kit (CDK) Write Infrastructure as Code (laC) using an imperative paradigm with your alternative to CloudFormation which is declarative

• CodeStar lets you quickly develop, build and deploy applications on AWS

• A wizard for getting common applications projects setup. You get a deployment pipeline, access management and a project dashboard to monitor infrastructure

• Docker is a a third-party tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run apps by using containers

• A Dockerfile contains all the build instructions to assemble the container image

• Secrets Manager Protect secrets needed to access your applications and services. Easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle

• Secrets Manager’s is mostly used to store and automatically rotate database credentials.

• RDS, RedShift, DocumentDB, Other Databases (SQL)

• Stores Key/Value pairs (think of a hash file)

• SSM Parameter Store is hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management