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AWS Certified Developer Associate 2026 DVA-C02

Build and deploy scalable cloud applications on AWS — serverless, containerised, and CI/CD — and pass the DVA-C02 certification.

★ 4.8 (300 learners) 60 hrs total 20 modules 3 capstones
AWS EC2 S3 IAM VPC Lambda +6 more
Only 5 seats left · Next batch starts 15 Aug 2026
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60 hrs
of content
20 modules
in curriculum
19 projects
hands-on builds
Intermediate
difficulty

Curriculum covers

Frameworks you'll master

12 tools & frameworks
AWS EC2 S3 IAM VPC Lambda RDS CloudFormation EKS ECS Docker Step Functions

Course Curriculum

20 modules · 60 hours · 24 live sessions

Getting started with AWS 1 sessions
  • Getting started with AWS
  • AWS Cloud Overview – Regions & AZ
  • AWS Console UI Update
  • Tour of the AWS Console & Services in AWS
  • IAM & AWS CLI
  • IAM Introduction: Users, Groups, Policies
  • IAM Users & Groups Hands On
  • AWS Console Simultaneous Signin
  • IAM MFA Overview
AWS Access Keys, CLI and SDK 1 sessions
  • AWS Access Keys, CLI and SDK
  • AWS CLI Setup on Windows
  • AWS Cloud Shell
  • IAM Roles for AWS Services
  • IAM Security Tools
  • IAM Best Practices
  • Shared Responsibility Model for IAM
  • IAM Summary
  • EC2 Fundamentals
AWS Budget Setup 1 sessions
  • AWS Budget Setup
  • EC2 Basics
  • Create an EC2 Instance with EC2 User Data to have a Website Hands On
  • EC2 Instance Types Basics
  • Security Groups & Classic Ports Overview
  • SSH Overview
  • How to SSH using Windows
  • SSH Troubleshooting
  • EC2 Instance Connect
EC2 Instance Roles Demo 1 sessions
  • EC2 Instance Roles Demo
  • EC2 Instance Purchasing Options
  • EC2 Instance Storage
  • EBS Overview
  • 5min
  • EBS Snapshots
  • AMI Overview
  • EC2 Instance Store
  • EBS Volume Types
EBS multiattach 1 sessions
  • EBS multiattach
  • Amazon EFS
  • EFS vs EBS
  • AWS Fundamentals: ELB + ASG
  • High Availability and Scalability
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Overview
  • About the Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
  • Application Load Balancer (ALB)
  • Application Load Balancer (ALB) Hands On Part 1
Application Load Balancer (ALB) Hands On Part 2 1 sessions
  • Application Load Balancer (ALB) Hands On Part 2
  • Network Load Balancer (NLB)
  • Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
  • Elastic Load Balancer Sticky Sessions
  • Elastic Load Balancer Cross Zone Load Balancing
  • Elastic Load Balancer SSL Certificates
  • Elastic Load Balancer Connection Draining
  • Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) Overview
  • Auto Scaling Groups Scaling Policies
Auto Scaling Groups Scaling Policies Hands On 1 sessions
  • Auto Scaling Groups Scaling Policies Hands On
  • Auto Scaling Groups Instance Refresh
  • AWS Fundamentals: RDS + Aurora + ElasticCache
  • Amazon RDS – Overview
  • RDS Read Replicas vs Multi AZ
  • Amazon Aurora
  • RDS & Aurora Security
  • RDS Proxy
  • ElasticCache Overview
ElasticCache Strategies 5 sessions
  • ElasticCache Strategies
  • Amazon Memory DB for Redis Overview
  • What is a DNS?
  • Route 53 Overview
  • Route 53 Registering a domain
  • Route 53 Creating our first records
  • Route 53 EC2 Setup
  • Route 53 – TTL
  • Route 53 CNAME vs Alias
  • Routing Policy – Simple
  • Routing Policy – Weighted
  • Routing Policy – Latency
  • Route 53 Health Checks
  • Route 53 Health Checks Hands On
  • Routing Policy – Failover
  • Routing Policy – Geolocation
  • Routing Policy – Geoproximity
  • Routing Policy IPbased
  • Routing Policy Multi Value
  • 3rd Party Domains & Route 53
  • VPC Fundamentals Section Introduction
  • VPC, Subnets, IGW and NAT
  • NACL, SG, VPC Flow Logs
  • VPC Peering, Endpoints, VPN, DX
  • VPC Cheat Sheet & Closing Comments
  • Three Tier Architecture
  • S3 Overview
  • S3 Hands On
  • S3 Security: Bucket Policy
  • S3 Security: Bucket Policy Hands On
  • S3 Website Overview
  • S3 Versioning
  • S3 Replication
  • S3 Replication Notes
  • S3 Storage Classes Overview
  • AWS EC2 Instance Metadata
  • AWS EC2 Instance Metadata Hands On
  • AWS CLI Profiles
  • AWS CLI with MFA
  • AWS SDK Overview
  • Exponential Backoff & Service Limit Increase
  • AWS Credentials Provider & Chain
  • AWS Signature v4 Signing (Sigv4)
  • S3 Lifecycle Rules (with S3 Analytics)
  • S3 Event Notifications
  • S3 Event Notifications Hands On
  • S3 Performance
  • S3 Object Tags & Metadata
  • S3 Encryption
  • About DSSEKMS
  • S3 Encryption Hands On
  • S3 Default Encryption
  • S3 CORS
  • S3 MFA Delete
  • S3 Access Logs
  • S3 Presigned URLs
  • S3 Access Points
  • S3 Object Lambda
  • CloudFront Overview
  • CloudFront Hands On
  • CloudFront Caching & Caching Policies
  • CloudFront Cache Invalidations
  • CloudFront Cache Behaviours
  • CloudFront Caching & Caching Invalidations Hands On
  • CloudFront ALB/EC2 as an Origin
  • CloudFront Geo Restriction
  • CloudFront Signed URL / Cookies
  • CloudFront Signed URL Key Groups + Hands On
  • CloudFront Advanced Concepts
  • CloudFront Real Time Logs
ECS, ECR & Fargate – Docker in AWS 6 sessions
  • Docker Introduction
  • Amazon ECS
  • Creating ECS Cluster Hands On
  • Creating ECS Service Hands On
  • Amazon ECS Auto Scaling
  • Amazon ECS Rolling Updates
  • Amazon ECS Solutions Architectures
  • Amazon ECS Task Definitions Deep Dive
  • Amazon ECS Task Placements
  • Amazon ECR
  • AWS CoPilot Overview
  • Amazon EKS
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk Section Introduction
  • Elastic Beanstalk Overview (High level)
  • Beanstalk First Environment
  • Beanstalk Second Environment
  • Beanstalk Deployment Modes
  • Beanstalk Deployment Modes Hands On
  • Beanstalk CLI and Deployment Process
  • Beanstalk Lifecycle Policy Overview + Hands On
  • Beanstalk Extensions
  • Beanstalk & CloudFormation
  • Beanstalk Cloning
  • Beanstalk Migrations
  • CloudFormation Overview
  • CloudFormation Create Stack Hands On
  • CloudFormation Update & Delete Stack Hands On
  • YAML Crash Course
  • CloudFormation Resources
  • CloudFormation Parameters
  • CloudFormation Mappings
  • CloudFormation Outputs & Exports
  • CloudFormation Conditions
  • CloudFormation Intrinsic Functions
  • CloudFormation Rollbacks
  • CloudFormation Service Role
  • CloudFormation Capabilities
  • CloudFormation Deletion Policy
  • CloudFormation Stack Policy
  • CloudFormation Termination Protection
  • CloudFormation Custom Resources
  • CloudFormation Stack Sets
  • AWS Integration & Messaging Section Introduction
  • Introduction to Messaging
  • Amazon SQS Standard Queues Overview
  • SQS Standard Queue Hands On
  • SQS Queue Access Policy
  • SQS Message Visibility Timeout
  • SQS Dead Letter Queues
  • SQS Delay Queues
  • SQS Certified Developer concepts
  • SQS FIFO Queues
  • SQS FIFO Queues Advanced
  • Amazon SNS
  • Amazon SNS and SQS Fan Out Pattern
  • SNS Hands On
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
  • Amazon Data Firehose
  • Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
  • SQS vs SNS vs Kinesis
  • AWS Monitoring Section Introduction
  • Monitoring Overview in AWS
  • CloudWatch Metrics
  • CloudWatch Custom Metrics
  • CloudWatch Logs
  • CloudWatch Logs Hands On
  • CloudWatch Logs Live Tail Hands On
  • CloudWatch Agent & CloudWatch Logs Agent
  • CloudWatch Logs Metric Filters
  • CloudWatch Logs Metric Filters Hands On
  • CloudWatch Alarms
  • CloudWatch Synthetics
  • Amazon EventBridge
  • Amazon EventBridge MultiAccount Aggregation
  • XRay Overview
  • XRay: Instrumentation and Concepts
  • XRay: Sampling Rules
  • XRay APIs
  • XRay with Beanstalk
  • XRay & ECS
  • AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
  • CloudTrail
  • CloudTrail EventBridge Integration
  • CloudTrail vs CloudWatch vs XRay
  • AWS Serverless: Lambda
  • AWS Lambda Section Introduction
  • Serverless Introduction
  • AWS Lambda Overview
Lambda Synchronous Invocations 1 sessions
  • Lambda Synchronous Invocations
  • Lambda & Application Load Balancer
  • Lambda Asynchronous Invocations & DLQ
  • Lambda & CloudWatch Events / EventBridge
  • Lambda & S3 Event Notifications
  • Lambda Event Source Mapping
  • Lambda Event Source Mapping Hands On (SQS)
  • Lambda Event & Context Objects
  • Lambda Destinations
Lambda Permissions IAM Roles & Resource Policies 1 sessions
  • Lambda Permissions IAM Roles & Resource Policies
  • Lambda Environment Variables
  • Lambda Monitoring & XRay Tracing
  • Lambda@Edge & CloudFront Functions
  • Lambda in VPC
  • Lambda Function Performance
  • Lambda Layers
  • Lambda File Systems Mounting
  • Lambda Concurrency Hands On
Lambda External Dependencies 1 sessions
  • Lambda External Dependencies
  • Lambda and CloudFormation
  • Lambda Container Images
  • Lambda Versions and Aliases
  • Lambda and CodeDeploy
  • Lambda Function URL
  • Lambda CodeGuru Integration
  • Lambda Limits
  • Lambda Best Practices
AWS Serverless: Dynamo DB 1 sessions
  • AWS Serverless: Dynamo DB
  • DynamoDB Section Introduction
  • DynamoDB Overview
  • DynamoDB Basics Hands On
  • DynamoDB WCU & RCU Throughput
  • DynamoDB WCU & RCU Hands On
  • DynamoDB Basic Operations
  • DynamoDB Basic APIs Hands On
  • DynamoDB Conditional Writes
DynamoDB Indexes (GSI + LSI) 1 sessions
  • DynamoDB Indexes (GSI + LSI)
  • DynamoDB Indexes (GSI + LSI) Hands On
  • DynamoDB PartiQL
  • DynamoDB Optimistic Locking
  • DynamoDB DAX
  • DynamoDB Streams
  • DynamoDB TTL
  • DynamoDB CLI
  • DynamoDB Transactions
DynamoDB Session State 1 sessions
  • DynamoDB Session State
  • DynamoDB Partitioning Strategies
  • DynamoDB Conditional Writes, Concurrent Writes & Atomic Writes
  • DynamoDB Patterns with S3
  • DynamoDB Operations
  • DynamoDB Security & Other
  • AWS Serverless: API Gateway
  • API Gateway Section Introduction
  • API Gateway Overview
API Gateway Basics Hands On 1 sessions
  • API Gateway Basics Hands On
  • API Gateway Stages and Deployment
  • API Gateway Stages and Deployment Hands On
  • API Gateway Stages Configurations Hands On
  • API Gateway Canary Deployments
  • API Gateway Canary Deployments Hands On
  • API Gateway Integration Types & Mappings
  • API Gateway Mapping Templates Hands On
  • API Gateway Open API
API Gateway Caching 1 sessions
  • API Gateway Caching
  • API Gateway Usage Plans & API Keys
  • API Gateway Monitoring, Logging and Tracing
  • API Gateway CORS
  • API Gateway Authentication and Authorization
  • API Gateway Authentication and Authorization Hands On
  • API Gateway REST API vs HTTP API
  • API Gateway WebSocket API
  • API Gateway Architecture
AWS CI/CD: Code Commit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy 1 sessions
  • AWS CI/CD: Code Commit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
  • AWS CICD Section Introduction
  • Introduction to CICD in AWS
  • CodeCommit Overview
  • IMPORTANT: CodeCommit Discontinuation
  • GitHub Hands On
  • CodePipeline Overview
  • CodePipeline Hands On Prerequisite
  • CodePipeline Hands On
CodeBuild Overview 1 sessions
  • CodeBuild Overview
  • CodeBuild Hands On Part I
  • CodeBuild Hands On Part 2
  • CodeDeploy Overview
  • CodeDeploy Hands On
  • CodeDeploy for EC2 and ASG
  • CodeArtifact Overview
  • CodeArtifact Hands On
  • CodeGuru – Overview
CodeGuru Agent Configuration 1 sessions
  • CodeGuru Agent Configuration
  • AWS SAM Section Introduction
  • SAM Overview
  • SAM Hands On
  • SAM with DynamoDB Hands On
  • SAM Policy Templates
  • SAM with CodeDeploy
  • SAM Local Capabilities
  • SAM Multiple Environments
  • CDK Overview
  • CDK Hands On
  • CDK Constructs
  • CDK Commands & Bootstrapping
  • CDK Unit Testing
  • Cognito Overview
  • Cognito User Pools
  • Cognito User Pools Hands On
  • Cognito User Pools Others
  • Application Load Balancer User Authentication
  • Cognito Identity Pools
  • Cognito Identity Pools Hands On
  • Cognito User Pools vs Cognito Identity Pools
  • Other Serverless: Step Functions & AppSync
  • Step Functions Overview
  • Step Functions Hands On
  • Step Functions Invoke Lambda Hands On
  • Step Functions Error Handling

After this course, you will

Skills you carry to every job

  • Build serverless applications with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB following best practices
  • Package and deploy containerised workloads using ECS Fargate, ECR, and EKS
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline
  • Manage application secrets and configuration using SSM Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
  • Integrate asynchronous messaging using SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and Kinesis
  • Secure applications with Cognito user pools, IAM roles, and API Gateway authorizers
  • Instrument and troubleshoot applications using X-Ray traces and CloudWatch Logs Insights
  • Pass the AWS Certified Developer Associate DVA-C02 exam on first attempt

Hands-on learning

What you'll build

3 industry capstone projects · built from scratch · yours to keep

01

Serverless REST API with CI/CD Pipeline

Build a serverless CRUD REST API using API Gateway, Lambda (Node.js or Python), and DynamoDB. Automate deployments with a CodePipeline that pulls from CodeCommit, runs CodeBuild unit tests, and deploys via CloudFormation/SAM with blue-green traffic shifting using Lambda aliases and weighted routing.

Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB CodePipeline CodeBuild CloudFormation SAM IAM
02

Event-Driven Order Processing System

Design a microservices order system where an API Gateway endpoint publishes to SQS, a Lambda consumer processes orders and writes to DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams trigger fulfilment Lambda functions, and SNS sends order confirmation emails via SES. Add X-Ray tracing across all services.

API Gateway SQS Lambda DynamoDB SNS SES X-Ray CloudWatch
03

Containerised Microservice Deployment on ECS Fargate

Containerise a Python Flask microservice, push the image to ECR, deploy on ECS Fargate with an ALB, implement auto-scaling based on CPU/memory metrics, and set up a CodePipeline that builds, tests, and rolls out updates with zero downtime using ECS rolling deployments.

ECS Fargate ECR ALB CodePipeline CodeBuild CloudFormation CloudWatch IAM

Plus 16 guided mini-projects across the curriculum — Q&A bots, resume screeners, SQL helpers, and more.

Batch Schedule

⚡ Seats filling fast — only 5 remaining across all batches

Available Batches
Batch Type Schedule Duration Next Start Date Availability
Weekend Sat & Sun, 10am–1pm 10 weeks 15 Aug 2026 Only 5 seats left
Weekday Mon–Fri, 7–9pm 8 weeks 17 Aug 2026 Available
Fast-track Mon–Sun, 6 hours/day 2 weeks 24 Aug 2026 Available

Frequently Asked Questions

What level of AWS experience is expected?

The DVA-C02 is an Associate-level exam. You should have 1+ years of active AWS development experience or have completed the Cloud Practitioner plus significant hands-on project work with Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and IAM.

Does the course cover the AWS CDK or SAM?

Yes. AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) is covered extensively for deploying serverless applications. CDK concepts are also introduced as an infrastructure-as-code alternative to CloudFormation templates.

How much of the exam focuses on serverless?

Approximately 30–35% of exam questions relate to Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS. The exam tests both architectural knowledge and specific service limits, error handling, and deployment patterns.

Is the course practical or mostly theory?

Highly practical. Every module includes hands-on labs — you build real applications in your own AWS account, write code, deploy stacks, and troubleshoot issues just as you would in a developer role.

Are Docker and containers covered?

Yes. Docker fundamentals, ECR image management, ECS task definitions, EKS pod networking, and the Fargate launch type are all covered with hands-on deployment labs.

What is the pass mark for the DVA-C02 exam?

A scaled score of 720 out of 1000. The exam has 65 questions and lasts 130 minutes. Two practice exams included in the course simulate the full exam experience.

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