AWS Certified Developer Associate Specialization

AWS Certified Developer Associate Specialization

Build Your Career as an AWS Developer. Gain hands-on skills in building, deploying, and monitoring scalable AWS applications

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3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Understand IAM, VPCs, EC2, and S3 to confidently manage identity, compute, and storage in AWS
Master serverless development with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Cognito, and DynamoDB
Deploy scalable applications using Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon RDS
Automate deployments using CloudFormation, CDK, and CodePipeline, and deploy with Elastic Beanstalk

Skills you'll gain

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Specialization - 3 course series

AWS Developer Associate Specialization – Build, Deploy, and Scale in the Cloud

The AWS Certified Developer Associate Specialization offers a comprehensive approach to understanding application development on AWS. Whether you're preparing for the AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam or want to gain real-world experience, this extensive curriculum will provide you with everything you need to succeed in today's cloud-driven ecosystem.

Across three professionally designed courses, you'll learn the fundamentals of Identity, Compute, and Storage, including IAM, EC2, VPCs, S3, EBS, and more. You'll also learn about Databases, Event-Driven Architecture, and Messaging, with hands-on experience with RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and serverless processes.

Finally, you will get comprehensive knowledge of monitoring, deployment, CI/CD, and developer tools, including CloudFormation, CDK, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, ECS, EKS, and deployment automation tools.

Each course includes hands-on demos, real-world scenarios, engaging videos, and graded quizzes to ensure job-ready outcomes.

Elevate your cloud career—enroll today and become a certified AWS Developer Associate.

Applied Learning Project

The specialization has 40+ demos covering most of the concepts from ground-up. These demos are step-by-step and well-explained so are very easy to follow along. With these hands-on demos, you will lean how to apply required AWS development centric skills in real-life work.

AWS Developer Essentials: Identity, Compute and Storage

Course 18 hours

What you'll learn

Understand IAM roles, policies, and best practices to secure AWS resources
Learn to create, manage, and monitor custom VPCs for secure networking
Launch and manage EC2 instances with full lifecycle and pricing knowledge
Manage S3 buckets, enable versioning, and host static websites securely

Skills you'll gain

Category: Scalability

Category: Network Security

Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Category: Cloud Computing

Category: Authorization (Computing)

Category: Amazon CloudWatch

Category: Cloud Security

AWS Databases, Messaging, and Event Driven Architecture

Course 210 hours

What you'll learn

Manage relational and NoSQL databases using RDS, DynamoDB, and Aurora
Implement ELB, Route 53, and DNS routing for scalable app performance
Build and deploy serverless apps using AWS Lambda and Step Functions
Set up messaging and streaming with SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and Amazon MSK

Skills you'll gain

Category: Serverless Computing

Category: NoSQL

Category: Authentications

Category: Key Management

Category: Amazon DynamoDB

Category: Amazon Web Services

Category: Event-Driven Programming

Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Category: Load Balancing

Category: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

Category: Identity and Access Management

Category: OAuth

Category: Databases

Category: Database Management Systems

Category: Cloud API

Category: Data Storage Technologies

Category: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Category: AWS Kinesis

Category: Cloud Security

Category: Secure Coding

AWS Monitoring, CI/CD and Deployment with Developer Tools

Course 39 hours

What you'll learn

Monitor applications with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and X-Ray
Implement CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
Automate infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation and CDK
Use Elastic Beanstalk and CodeGuru for efficient app deployment and review

Skills you'll gain

Category: AWS CloudFormation

Category: Application Deployment

Category: Serverless Computing

Category: Docker (Software)

Category: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Category: CI/CD

Category: Containerization

Category: Scalability

Category: Devops Tools

Category: DevOps

Category: Amazon CloudWatch

Category: Application Performance Management

Category: Amazon Web Services

Category: Cloud Development

Category: Continuous Deployment

Category: System Monitoring

Category: Continuous Integration

Category: Development Environment

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Frequently asked questions

Basic understanding of cloud will be good to have. AWS basic concepts are covered in the first course though.

Yes, it is recommended. The first course introduces the basic concepts required and other 2 courses are built on top of the first course.

You can appear for the AWS Certified Developer associate certificate exam. Also the course will provide you the required skills to work as AWS Developer.

The AWS Certified Developer Associate specialization is made up of three courses that help you gain skills: Identity & Compute Essentials, Databases & Event-Driven Architecture, and Monitoring & Deployment Tools. Each one has hands-on demos, assignments, real-life examples, and graded tests that are similar to the AWS Developer Associate exam.

Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.