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3Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

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  • 3.1Provisioning with CloudFormation

    Understand IaC operations: CloudFormation templates and stacks, previewing with change sets, rolling out across accounts/regions with StackSets, and drift detection.

  • 3.2Fleet Management with Systems Manager

    Understand large-scale operations automation with Systems Manager: Run Command (commands at scale), Patch Manager (patching), Parameter Store (config/secrets), and maintenance windows.

  • 3.3Consistent Instances (AMIs and Launch Templates)

    Understand consistent, fast provisioning: golden AMIs (prebaked), launch templates (AMI + type + user data), and bootstrap via user data.

  • 3.4Operating containers (ECS/EKS/ECR)

    Learn container operations, which carry more weight in SOA-C03: choosing among Amazon ECS, EKS, and Fargate; image management and vulnerability scanning with Amazon ECR; deployment strategies (rolling / blue-green); service auto scaling; monitoring and logging via Container Insights (awslogs / FireLens); and least privilege with task roles—from an operations perspective.

  • 3.5In-scope services for deployment, provisioning, and automation

    A roundup of in-scope SOA-C03 services for deployment and automation—IaC, operational automation, and multi-account governance.