AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
Master DevOps practices on AWS, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, security, and resilient cloud operations, in preparation for the certification.
About this course
Take your AWS expertise to the next level with this advanced course designed to prepare you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) exam. Explore the principles and practices of DevOps, focusing on automating software delivery, managing cloud infrastructure, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available applications on AWS. Learn how to design and manage continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and implement reliable deployment strategies. Discover how AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, and Amazon EventBridge support modern DevOps workflows. You'll also explore configuration management, monitoring and logging, incident response, disaster recovery, security automation, and compliance. Understand how to build resilient cloud environments that can detect failures, recover automatically, and maintain operational efficiency. Through short, focused lessons and interactive challenges, you'll reinforce advanced concepts, evaluate real-world scenarios, and strengthen your ability to make effective architectural and operational decisions. Whether you're an experienced cloud engineer, DevOps professional, or AWS practitioner looking to advance your career, this course will help you deepen your technical expertise and prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.
What you will learn
Exam Overview and DevOps Fundamentals
- DOP-C02 Exam Structure and Core ScenariosFree
- DevOps Practices and Automation PrinciplesFree
SDLC Automation and CI/CD Pipelines
- AWS CodePipeline Release Workflows and OrchestrationFree
- CodeBuild and Artifact ManagementFree
- Automated Pull Request Validation WorkflowsFree
- Automated Code Quality and Profiling with Amazon CodeGuruFree
- Serverless Application Deployment with AWS SAM and CDKFree
Continuous Deployment Strategies
- AWS CodeDeploy Concepts, Configurations, and AppSpecFree
- Blue/Green and Traffic Shifting on AWS Elastic BeanstalkFree
- Blue/Green and Canary Deployments with AWS LambdaFree
- Containerized Deployments with Amazon ECS and CodeDeployFree
- DNS-Based Traffic Routing and Blue/Green Deployments with Route 53Free
Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- CloudFormation Core Concepts, Change Sets, and Drift DetectionFree
- CloudFormation Cross-Stack References and Multi-Account StackSetsFree
- Auto Scaling Update Policies in CloudFormationFree
- Automated AMI Management with EC2 Image BuilderFree
- Systems Manager State Manager, Run Command, and InventoryFree
- Systems Manager Patch Manager and Maintenance WindowsFree
- Governed Provisioning with AWS Service Catalog and Migration DiscoveryFree
High Availability, Resilience, and Disaster Recovery
- High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Multi-Region ArchitecturesFree
- Disaster Recovery Objectives and Hybrid Storage SolutionsFree
- Relational Database Resiliency and Automated FailoverFree
- Scalable and Resilient NoSQL and Caching Architectures
- Resilience Testing with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Scalable Compute, Containers, and Networking
- EC2 Auto Scaling, Lifecycle Hooks, and Termination Policies
- Target Health Checks Across EC2, ELB, and Auto Scaling
- Amazon EKS Cluster Autoscaling: Cluster Autoscaler vs Karpenter
- Amazon EKS Networking and Add-ons
- Advanced Cloud Networking: Transit Gateway, VPC Endpoints, and PrivateLink
Monitoring, Logging, and Observability
- CloudWatch Metrics, Alarms, and Operational Dashboards
- Centralized Logging with CloudWatch Agent and Subscription Filters
- Multi-Account Auditing with AWS CloudTrail and Config
- Network Observability with Consolidated VPC Flow Logs
- Distributed Tracing with AWS X-Ray
- Real-Time Stream Ingestion and Analytics with Kinesis, OpenSearch, and Athena
Incident and Event Response Automation
- Event-Driven Architectures with Amazon EventBridge
- S3 and Database Event Notifications
- Automated Incident Remediation with Step Functions and Systems Manager
- Infrastructure Health Monitoring and Maintenance Alerts
- CI/CD Pipeline Event Monitoring and Rollback Automation
Security, Identity, and Compliance at Scale
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) Policies, Roles, and Governance
- Centralized Identity Federation with IAM Identity Center and Directory Service
- Secrets Management: AWS Secrets Manager vs SSM Parameter Store
- Secure Remote Server Access with SSM Session Manager
- Automated Security Auditing, Vulnerability Assessment, and Threat Detection
- Edge and Network Security with WAF, Shield, Network Firewall, and ACM
- Multi-Account Management with AWS Organizations and Control Tower
- AWS Trusted Advisor and Service Quota Monitoring
- CloudFormation Custom Resources and Hooks
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Architecture and Auditing
- Container and Workload Observability with Prometheus and Grafana
- Fully Managed Container Deployment with AWS App Runner