AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Course Description

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification (DOP-C02) validates your expertise in automating, monitoring, and optimizing applications and infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This advanced-level course is designed for experienced DevOps professionals looking to build scalable and secure automation pipelines, enforce governance, and optimize performance and cost in AWS environments.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with tools like CodePipeline, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Lambda, and more, as you learn to implement robust DevOps practices across the full development lifecycle. The course combines technical deep dives, real-world projects, and exam-focused guidance to prepare you for the DOP-C02 certification exam.

Certification

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) proves your ability to:

• Automate and streamline code releases and infrastructure provisioning

• Monitor, log, and respond to system events

• Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective deployment strategies

• Enforce security and compliance in DevOps workflows

Prerequisites:

• 2+ years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments

• Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, scripting, and automation

• Prior AWS Associate-level certification (recommended but not mandatory)

Who This Course is For

• DevOps Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and Automation Specialists

• System Administrators managing production workloads on AWS

• Professionals preparing for the AWS DOP-C02 certification exam

• Developers looking to move into DevOps roles with AWS expertise

What You’ll Learn

DevOps Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Automate AWS resources with CloudFormation and Terraform

• Manage infrastructure changes safely and at scale

• Implement repeatable, version-controlled environments

CI/CD Pipelines

• Build, test, and deploy with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy

• Use GitHub Actions and third-party tools for pipeline integration

• Automate deployments across hybrid and multi-account AWS setups

Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response

• Monitor applications and infrastructure with CloudWatch and X-Ray

• Set up alerts, dashboards, and anomaly detection

• Log collection and analysis using CloudTrail, Config, and OpenSearch

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Manage secrets and credentials using AWS Secrets Manager and Key Management Service (KMS)

• Apply IAM roles, policies, and permission boundaries

• Enforce compliance using AWS Config Rules and Service Control Policies

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Build fault-tolerant, multi-AZ and multi-region architectures

• Automate backups, failover, and rollbacks

• Use Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Route 53

Performance & Cost Optimization

• Implement caching with CloudFront and ElastiCache

• Monitor usage with Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Trusted Advisor

• Use tagging, consolidation, and policies for cost control

Tools & Services Covered

• CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, CloudFormation, Lambda

• EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB

• CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, AWS Config

• IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager (SSM)

• Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, AWS CLI, Terraform

Course Outcomes

• Full readiness for the AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) exam

• Advanced skills in automating and optimizing AWS environments

• Confidence to lead enterprise DevOps initiatives and manage complex deployments

• Qualification for roles such as Senior DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or Cloud Automation Architect