Master the skills to manage, maintain, and secure your AWS environments with confidence.

91% of organizations agree that employing AWS-trained staff leads to faster project completion and improved operational performance, demonstrating the critical value of skilled cloud operations professionals.

This top AWS certification empowers system administrators and operations teams to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS environments effectively. With a focus on AWS’s operational excellence pillar, you’ll learn to automate tasks, ensure compliance, and enhance the security and resilience of your cloud operations.

What are the key benefits gained:

  • Gain hands-on experience maintaining AWS environments
  • Automate administrative and operational tasks confidently
  • Strengthen security and improve resilience
  • Ensure compliance and business continuity
  • Learn directly from expert AWS instructors

Take control of your AWS operations to advance your cloud operations expertise and prepare for the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certification.

Overview

This AWS-COA: Cloud Operations on AWS course teaches systems operators and anyone performing cloud operations functions how to manage and operate automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on AWS. You will learn about cloud operations functions, such as installing, configuring, automating, monitoring, securing, maintaining, and troubleshooting these services, networks, and systems.

The course also covers specific AWS features, tools, and best practices related to these functions.

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Skills Covered

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Identify the AWS services that support the different phases of Operational Excellence, an AWS Well Architected Framework pillar
  • Manage access to AWS resources using AWS accounts and organizations and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Maintain an inventory of in-use AWS resources by using AWS services, such as AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config
  • Develop a resource deployment strategy using metadata tags, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and AWS Control Tower to deploy and maintain an AWS cloud environment
  • Automate resource deployment by using AWS services, such as AWS CloudFormation and AWS Service Catalog
  • Use AWS services to manage AWS resources through CloudOps lifecycle processes, such as deployments and patches
  • Configure a highly available cloud environment that uses AWS services, such as Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing, to route traffic for optimal latency and performance
  • Configure AWS Auto Scaling and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to scale out your cloud environment based on demand
  • Use Amazon CloudWatch and associated features, such as alarms, dashboards, and widgets, to monitor your cloud environment
  • Manage permissions and track activity in your cloud environment by using AWS services, such as AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
  • Deploy your resources to an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), establish necessary connectivity to your Amazon VPC, and protect your resources from disruptions of service
  • State the purpose, benefits, and appropriate use cases for mountable storage in your AWS Cloud environment
  • Explain the operational characteristics of object storage in the AWS Cloud, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Build a comprehensive cost model to help gather, optimize, and predict your cloud costs by using services such as AWS Cost Explorer and the AWS Cost & Usage Report

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Successfully completed the AWS Technical Essentials course
  • A background in software development or systems administration
  • Proficiency in maintaining operating systems at the command line, such as shell scripting in Linux environments or cmd/PowerShell in Windows
  • Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

Target Audience

This course is intended for:

  • System administrators and operators who are operating in the AWS Cloud
  • Informational technology workers who want to increase their cloud operations knowledge

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Operations on AWS

  • What is Cloud Operations
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • AWS Well-Architected Tool

Module 2: Access Management

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations

Module 3: System Discovery

  • Methods to interact with AWS services
  • Tools for automating resource discovery
  • Inventory with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config
  • Hands-On Lab: Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

Module 4: Deploy and Update Resources

  • Cloud Operations in deployments
  • Tagging strategies
  • Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
  • Deployment using AWS Control Tower

Module 5: Automate Resource Deployment

  • Deployment using AWS CloudFormation
  • Deployment using AWS Service Catalog
  • Hands-On Lab: Infrastructure as Code

Module 6: Manage Resources

  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Hands-On Lab: Operations as Code

Module 7: Configure Highly Available Systems

  • Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
  • Amazon Route 53

Module 8: Automate Scaling

  • Scaling with AWS Auto Scaling
  • Scaling with Spot Instances
  • Managing licenses with AWS License Manager

Module 9: Monitor and Maintain System Health

  • Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads
  • Monitoring AWS infrastructure
  • Monitoring applications
  • Hands-On Lab: Monitor Applications and Infrastructure

Module 10: Data Security and System Auditing

  • Maintaining a strong identity and access foundation
  • Implementing detection mechanisms
  • Automating incident remediation

Module 11: Operate Secure and Resilient Networks

  • Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  • Networking beyond the VPC

Module 12: Mountable Storage

  • Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
  • Sizing Amazon EBS volumes for performance
  • Using Amazon EBS snapshots
  • Using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to manage your AWS resources
  • Creating backup and data recovery plans
  • Configuring shared file system storage
  • Hands-On Lab: Automating with AWS Backup for Archiving and Recovery

Module 13: Object Storage

  • Deploying Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Managing storage lifecycles on Amazon S3

Module 14: Cost Reporting, Alerts, and Optimization

  • Gaining AWS cost awareness
  • Using control mechanisms for cost management
  • Optimizing your AWS spend and usage
  • AWSHands-On Lab: Capstone lab for CloudOps

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Exam & Certification

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03)

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate credential has been renamed to AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate to reflect the evolving nature of cloud operations and a shift in industry terminology.

This change is intended to enhance the relevancy and credibility of individuals who earn this certification, highlighting their knowledge and skills in deploying, operating, and maintaining workloads on AWS.

A key difference between the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) and AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) is that containers are now in scope for SOA-C03, in addition to more modern services and features, a greater emphasis on multi-account, multi-Region architectures, and more on automation and infrastructure as code.

Training & Certification Guide

Validate your technical skills and expertise with an industry-recognized credential and grow your career.

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate is intended for system administrators in cloud operations roles to validate technical skills. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

  • A minimum of one year of hands-on experience with AWS technology
  • Experience deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS as well as implementing security controls and compliance requirements
  • Familiarity with using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework as well as AWS networking and security services

Individuals with ~1 year of experience deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS

Candidate role examples: Cloud Operations Specialist, Cloud Support Engineer, Cloud Consultant, Migration Specialist, and Cloud Systems Integration Engineer, CloudOps Engineer

  • Level: Associate
  • Length: 130 minutes to complete the exam
  • Cost: 150 USD (Practice exam: 20 USD)
  • Format: 65 scoring opportunities that may be multiple choice, multiple response, or exam lab
  • Delivery method: Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam

Individuals who have an active AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate can continue to recertify by retaking the exam through September 29, 2025. Once the exam is retired, we encourage you to pursue the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate as a way to showcase your cloud skills and knowledge in an operations role.

Individuals with an active AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate or an active AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate can recertify by upgrading to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.

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Frequently Asked Questions

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate validates the ability to deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS. This is the only exam that includes lab exercises. Preparing for and passing this exam shows you have the knowledge and hands-on skills to hit the ground running.

Build credibility

  • Skills validation – Earning AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate shows you have the skills to support and maintain AWS workloads. Highlight your experience in AWS optimization strategies, network configuration, and security implementation and compliance policies.
  • Confidence – Feel confident monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing. The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate certification validates that you meet the bar set by experts in AWS operations.
  • Best practices – Showcase your experience with AWS operational best practices and ability to implement security controls and compliance requirements.

Discover more opportunities

  • Recognition – With a digital badge that verifies your achievement, AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate indicates experience operating systems on AWS. Use your badge to indicate your understanding of AWS operational best practices for any stage of a cloud transformation.
  • Job performance – Show you’re ready to design for organizational complexity, differing compliance requirements, and varying scalability requirements.
  • Differentiate your skill set – Showcase your AWS operations experience. With a credential that represents an ability to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS, you can highlight experience and skill in cloud operations.

AWS Training and Certification helps you build and validate your cloud skills so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer both digital and classroom training—delivered virtually and in person—so you can choose to learn online at your own pace or learn best practices from an instructor. AWS Training and Certification offers prescriptive learning paths to get you started quickly. Progress along the path from foundational to intermediate training, and then dive deeper with advanced training to continue your learning.

We offer technical role-based learning paths for architects, developers, and operations staff. We also offer a Cloud Practitioner learning path for business decision makers who want to learn AWS Cloud fundamentals. Additional solutions-based learning paths focus on topics like machine learning, storage, data analytics, and security.

AWS Certification helps learners build credibility and confidence by validating their cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential and organizations identify skilled professionals to lead cloud initiatives using AWS. Just like learning music theory enables you to jam, a strong grounding in cloud principles empowers you to creatively explore cloud options.

Having the skills and insight to act upon your creativity and inspiration is essential to discovering new business opportunities in the cloud and helping your organization innovate. You’ll be able to experiment with AWS Cloud services, quickly testing products and implementing strategies to determine what best delivers your organizational goals.

You don’t need to be a technologist to benefit from learning cloud basics. By learning the AWS Cloud, you’ll gain first-hand knowledge of how the cloud can support greater efficiency, flexibility, and opportunity for both you and your organization.

You’ll also gain confidence in your ability to consider cloud options, so you’re better informed when making business and management decisions involving the cloud. By investing in training, organizations can accelerate cloud adoption, achieve business objectives sooner, and overcome concerns related to cloud adoption. Also, comprehensively trained organizations are nearly three times more likely to use the cloud to jump-start innovation. They’re also nearly four times more likely to meet cloud ROI requirements, and over four times more likely to overcome operational and performance concerns.

You don’t need to be a technologist to benefit from learning cloud basics. By learning the AWS Cloud, you’ll gain first-hand knowledge of how the cloud can support greater efficiency, flexibility, and opportunity for both you and your organization.

You’ll also gain confidence in your ability to consider cloud options, so you’re better informed when making business and management decisions involving the cloud. By investing in training, organizations can accelerate cloud adoption, achieve business objectives sooner, and overcome concerns related to cloud adoption. Also, comprehensively trained organizations are nearly three times more likely to use the cloud to jump-start innovation. They’re also nearly four times more likely to meet cloud ROI requirements, and over four times more likely to overcome operational and performance concerns.

Learn about each AWS Certification in our AWS Training and Certification blog post. To answer that question, you’ll need to consider your role and honestly evaluate your existing level of experience and knowledge across various areas of technical and cloud expertise.

AWS offers four categories of certifications, three of which correspond to the amount of experience you have with the AWS Cloud. For Specialty certifications, the amount of recommended experience varies by certification.

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