Domain 3 · 24% of Exam

Deployment

Domain 3 evaluates your knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment strategies, and artifact management for AWS applications.

What You'll Be Tested On

  • Building CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
  • Infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, SAM, and CDK
  • Deployment strategies: all-at-once, rolling, immutable, blue/green, canary
  • Managing container images with ECR and deploying to ECS
  • Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies and environment management
  • Artifact management and build caching

Key AWS Services in This Domain

Exam Tips for Domain 3

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SAM is a CloudFormation extension — sam deploy generates a CloudFormation stack.

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CodeDeploy blue/green for Lambda shifts traffic using aliases; for EC2 it creates a new Auto Scaling group.

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Know the Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies and their impact on capacity and downtime.

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CDK constructs come in 3 levels: L1 (CFN), L2 (curated defaults), L3 (patterns/solutions).

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