DevOps Engineer
Automate the delivery and operation of AWS systems with safe releases, observability and incident recovery.
Who this path is for
Bring practical AWS application delivery and operations experience. This is the AWS certification path, not a separate general tooling track.
Study each topic, complete the applied exercise, and keep evidence of what you learned. These are original study milestones, not a claim to reproduce the full exam blueprint. Use the linked AWS exam guide to check all in-scope domains before booking.
Your learning roadmap
01Automate delivery
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Automate delivery
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Pipeline controls
- Release strategies
- Artifact integrity
Design a staged release with test gates and rollback.
Identify the evidence needed before production promotion.
02Manage infrastructure
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Manage infrastructure
3 focus areas · applied exercise- CloudFormation
- Configuration drift
- Account controls
Plan repeatable environment provisioning with change review.
Separate application, infrastructure and policy changes.
03Observe and recover
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Observe and recover
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Service health signals
- Incident response
- Event-driven remediation
Use the worker failure exercise to write an incident runbook.
Include diagnosis, mitigation and a safe recovery step.
04Secure reliable operations
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Secure reliable operations
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Policy automation
- Resilience testing
- Audit trails
Define a failure drill for a queue-backed application.
Show that security controls remain enforced during recovery.
Put the learning into practice
Related labs cover selected skills. Completing them does not establish exam readiness.