CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and incident response concepts tested on the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional exam.
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- What does AWS CodePipeline do?
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Orchestrates and automates CI/CD workflows by connecting source, build, test, and deployment stages.- What is the purpose of AWS CodeBuild?
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Fully managed build service that compiles code, runs tests, and produces deployable artifacts.- What does AWS CodeDeploy do?
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Automates application deployments to EC2, on-premises servers, or Lambda functions.- What is AWS CodeCommit?
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Fully managed Git-based source control service for storing and versioning code.- What are pipeline artifacts?
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Output files and binaries produced by build or test stages that are passed to subsequent stages.- What is canary deployment?
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A deployment strategy that gradually rolls out changes to a small percentage of users before full release.- What is rolling deployment?
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A deployment strategy that gradually replaces instances of the old version with the new version.- What is AWS CloudWatch?
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Monitoring and observability service that collects metrics, logs, and events from AWS resources.- What does AWS X-Ray do?
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Distributed tracing service that analyzes and debugs requests across microservices and distributed applications.- What is Amazon EventBridge?
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Serverless event bus that routes events from sources to targets, enabling event-driven architectures.- What does Auto Scaling do?
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Automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances based on demand to maintain application performance.- What is step scaling?
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Auto Scaling policy that increases or decreases capacity in incremental steps based on metric thresholds.- What is AWS SAM?
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Serverless Application Model, an open-source framework for building serverless applications with simplified syntax.- What does a CloudFormation stack policy do?
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Defines what actions are allowed or denied on stack resources during updates or deletions.- What are CloudFormation change sets?
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Preview of changes that will be applied to a stack before actually updating it.
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