AWS Developer Associate Introduction AWS SDKs and CLI Deep Dive AWS SAM Serverless Application Model API Gateway REST HTTP APIs AWS Lambda Advanced Patterns DynamoDB Developer Patterns AWS CI/CD CodePipeline CodeBuild Amazon Cognito Authentication AWS Step Functions Orchestration EventBridge Developer Patterns Amazon ECR Container Registry ECS Fargate Container Deployment AWS X-Ray Distributed Tracing Secrets Manager Parameter Store CloudWatch Logs Insights Developer AWS AppSync GraphQL CodeArtifact Maven npm PyPI AWS Cloud9 Cloud IDE AWS AppConfig Feature Flags Developer Testing Best Practices AWS CodeCommit Git Repository AWS CodeDeploy Deployment AWS CodeStar Collaborative Dev Amazon S3 Developer Patterns Kinesis Data Streams Analytics AWS CDK Infrastructure Code AWS Amplify Fullstack Framework AWS CloudShell Browser IDE Serverless Application Repository AWS Developer Security Best Practices

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AWS Developer Associate Introduction

April 5, 2026

AWS Developer Associate Overview

Focuses on building, deploying, debugging cloud applications using AWS services programmatically.

Key Exam Domains

Domain 1: Development (32%)
- CI/CD with CodePipeline/CodeBuild
- Programming with AWS SDKs/CLIs
- Authentication (Cognito/IAM roles)

Domain 2: Security (26%)
- IAM roles/policies for services
- KMS encryption
- Secrets Manager

Domain 3: Deployment (24%)
- SAM/CloudFormation/Serverless Framework
- Container deployment (ECR/ECS/Fargate)
- API Gateway deployment

Domain 4: Troubleshooting (18%)
- CloudWatch Logs Insights/X-Ray
- Lambda debugging
- API Gateway testing

Developer Tools

AWS SAM CLI (Serverless)
AWS CLI v2
Cloud9 IDE
CodeArtifact (npm/PyPI)

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