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AWS code best practices

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AWS code best practices

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- [Instructor] As with any coding practices for AWS, there are a number of best practices that I'll just remind you as we wind down this section. You want to prefer scripting any kind of DevOP situation to clicking in the AWS Console. So, even though I demonstrated clicking in this course, as you're moving from learning and exploring into DevTest and, most notably, into production, you want to script as much as possible. It really should be a goal that you avoid clicking in any sort of environment where external users are working with your AWS services 'cause it's error prone and just not replicatible. It's a bad practice, so you want to script to the very least and become an expert in the CLI. You want to check all your scripts into source control. You want to version them and their code. You know, configuration is code and that is, again, just a core DevOps best practice. If you are using the SDK, you want to, of course, check your code in as well, and then I have a tip for you…

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