The AWS Certified Developer – Associate Level exam is intended for individuals who perform a Developer role. This exam validates an examinee’s ability to:

• Design, develop and deploy cloud based solutions using AWS
• Understand the core AWS services, uses, and basic architecture best practices
• Develop and maintain applications written for Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS CloudFormation

• Familiarity with general networking concepts or 1 year experience as network or system administrator or CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Cloud+ or Cloud Essentials (optional)

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Why Amazon (Link to job opportunities, news, articles, more)

• Significant global demand
• The high adoption rate of AWS cloud services by organizations
• The lack of cloud expertise is identified as the #1 challenge with cloud adoption by 25% of corporations. There’s clearly a shortage of certified AWS professionals available today
• Combining AWS certifications with other certifications to expand skill sets and increase salaries even more

• Cloud Administrator
• Cloud Engineer
• Solutions Architect
• Cloud Architect