AWS CloudOps Engineer (SOA-C03) case studies
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The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate is a foundational-to-intermediate credential for people who run workloads on AWS day to day: monitoring and remediating issues, keeping systems available, automating deployments, enforcing security controls, managing networking, and controlling cost. It is aimed at cloud operations engineers, systems administrators, DevOps and platform practitioners, and support staff who already have hands-on AWS exposure and want it validated. The exam is organized into six domains, with monitoring and remediation, reliability and business continuity, and deployment and automation carrying the largest share of the scoring weight, followed by security and compliance, networking and content delivery, and cost and performance optimization. Expect scenario questions that describe a symptom or constraint and ask you to choose the most operationally sound response, plus multiple-response items where more than one option is correct. The AWS CloudOps Engineer (SOA-C03) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,210 words.
1The Throttled Checkout Path
An e-commerce checkout service runs on 12 m7g.large instances behind an Application Load Balancer, spanning three Availability Zones. Peak traffic is 2,400 requests/minute.
432 words, about 2 min2The Backup That Was Never Restored
A financial services firm runs a primary workload in us-east-1 with an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. They take nightly EBS snapshots and daily RDS automated backups with a 7-day retention.
464 words, about 2 min3The Blue/Green That Wasn't
A team deploys a containerized API to ECS Fargate behind an ALB using a blue/green strategy with CodeDeploy. The service handles 800 requests/second.
460 words, about 2 min4The Over-Privileged Pipeline
A CI/CD pipeline runs in an AWS account and deploys to three environments: dev, staging, and prod, all in the same account. The pipeline's IAM role has AdministratorAccess because "it needed to create everything." Build logs are stored in an S3 bucket with default settings and no encryption.
433 words, about 2 min5The NAT Gateway That Ate the Budget
A data-processing workload runs on 40 EC2 instances in private subnets across three AZs. Each instance pulls a 2 GB container image from Amazon ECR every hour and writes results to S3.
421 words, about 2 min