The essential developer credential and key prerequisite pathway before pursuing the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification. Validates writing, deploying, and debugging cloud-native microservices with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, KMS, and CI/CD pipelines.
Entry-level certification covering the full CNCF cloud native landscape: GitOps, container runtimes, observability, microservices architecture, and SRE best practices.
The global standard credential for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) engineers. Tests deep operational knowledge of Terraform HCL syntax, state management, remote backends, module composition, workspaces, and CLI commands.
Validates enterprise secrets management expertise: dynamic secrets, encryption-as-a-service, token lifecycles, policies, unsealing, auth methods (AppRole, Kubernetes, OIDC), and disaster recovery.