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
SAM is a CloudFormation extension — sam deploy generates a CloudFormation stack.
CodeDeploy blue/green for Lambda shifts traffic using aliases; for EC2 it creates a new Auto Scaling group.
Know the Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies and their impact on capacity and downtime.
CDK constructs come in 3 levels: L1 (CFN), L2 (curated defaults), L3 (patterns/solutions).
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