AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional course offers a comprehensive guide to mastering the skills needed for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam. It covers essential concepts such as application lifecycle management, continuous integration, and delivery (CI/CD), and automation in the AWS environment. By the end of this course, you will have a strong foundation in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on AWS. The course begins by introducing core AWS tools such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, with hands-on examples to show you how to automate the building, testing, and deploying of applications. You will learn to use these services in tandem for continuous integration and delivery, allowing you to implement modern DevOps workflows efficiently. You'll also explore AWS CodeStar to manage multiple AWS DevOps services in one cohesive platform. Next, the course dives into automation, covering topics like Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, and CloudFormation. You will gain hands-on experience with these services to deploy scalable applications, automate infrastructure management, and manage application lifecycles. The automation section also includes practical guidance on working with Docker containers, and ECS clusters, and using AWS OpsWorks to manage applications throughout their lifecycle. Finally, the course addresses monitoring, logging, and compliance. You'll learn how to monitor your resources with CloudWatch, manage logs, set up alarms, and use AWS Config and Systems Manager for compliance and security. This course will equip you with the tools needed to build, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performing applications on AWS.