Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18% of the exam content) - AWS Certification
Task 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resourcesTask 3.2: Automate manual or repeatable processes

Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18% of the exam content)

This domain accounts for 18% of the exam content.

Task 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resources

  • Create and manage AMIs (for example, EC2 Image Builder).

  • Create, manage, and troubleshoot CloudFormation.

  • Provision resources across multiple Regions and accounts (for example, Resource Access Manager [ RAM], CloudFormation StackSets, IAM cross-account roles).

  • Select deployment scenarios and services (for example, blue/green, rolling, canary).

  • Identify and remediate deployment issues (for example, service quotas, subnet sizing, CloudFormation errors, permissions).

Task 3.2: Automate manual or repeatable processes

  • Use services (for example, Systems Manager, CloudFormation) to automate deployment processes.

  • Implement automated patch management.

  • Schedule automated tasks by using services (for example, EventBridge, Config).