• System administrators, operations engineers, or IT professionals responsible for cloud infrastructure and operations
• Engineers who manage and monitor AWS environments, troubleshoot operational issues, handle deployments and automation
• Professionals with some AWS experience looking to validate their operational cloud skills
• Anyone preparing to take the SOA-C02 exam

• At least 1 year of hands-on experience operating in AWS, including deploying, managing, and monitoring workloads on AWS AWS Static+2LinkedIn+2
• Experience in monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and security on AWS AWS Static+1
• Working knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls) AWS Static+1
• Familiarity with automation, scripting, and use of the AWS CLI / SDKs

• Deploy, manage, and operate AWS workloads in production environments
• Instrument systems with metrics and logs, and build dashboards and alarms
• Automate remediation and operational tasks via EventBridge, Systems Manager, AWS Config rules
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and fault tolerance in AWS
• Provision infrastructure programmatically using CloudFormation and other automation tools
• Implement deployment strategies (rolling, blue/green, canary) and troubleshoot deployment failures
• Manage security, governance, compliance, and encryption for operational workloads
• Design and manage VPCs, routing, connectivity, and content delivery services
• Monitor and optimize cost and performance, and implement cost-saving measures
• Troubleshoot operational incidents and perform root-cause analysis
  Gain confidence to sit and pass the SOA-C02 certification exam

• Implement metrics, alarms, and filters using CloudWatch (metrics, logs, dashboards)
• Collect logs and metrics from instances (CloudWatch Agent, CloudWatch Logs)
• Create metric filters, CloudWatch alarms, and notifications (SNS, EventBridge)
• Remediation: configure automated actions via EventBridge / Systems Manager / AWS Config rules
• Troubleshoot and take corrective actions based on alerts

• Implement scaling, elasticity, and caching

• Design high availability and fault-tolerant systems (Multi-AZ, ELB, failover)

• Route 53 health checks and routing policies (failover, latency, weighted)

• Backup and restore strategies (snapshots, RDS, AWS Backup, lifecycle policies)

• Disaster recovery planning & execution

• Provision and manage resources programmatically (CloudFormation, StackSets, AMIs)

• Automate tasks and deployments (Systems Manager, EventBridge, scheduled tasks)

• Deployment strategies (blue/green, rolling, canary)

• Troubleshoot deployment failures, permissions, quotas, and errors

• Manage access and permissions (IAM roles, policies)
• Data encryption (in transit, at rest, KMS)
• Audit and compliance logging (CloudTrail, AWS Config)
• Security posture monitoring (GuardDuty, Inspector, etc.)

• VPC configuration, subnets, route tables, NAT gateways

• Connectivity, routing, peering, Transit Gateway

• Content delivery (CloudFront, edge services)

• Traffic management (Global Accelerator, Route 53 features)

• Cost-tracking, usage reporting, budgeting tools (Cost Explorer, CUR)

• Right-sizing resources, choosing optimal instance types

• Performance tuning and tradeoffs

• Identifying cost-saving measures (idle resources, Reserved/Savings Plans)