Exam Essentials

Know what specific tasks AWS services can automate. CloudFormation can automatically deploy, change, and even delete AWS resources in one fell swoop.

The AWS Developer Tools—CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline—can help automate some or all of the software development, testing, and deployment process.

EC2 Auto Scaling automatically provisions a set number of EC2 instances. You can optionally have it scale in or out according to demand or a schedule.

Systems Manager Command documents let you automate tasks against your instance operating systems, such as patching, installing software, enforcing configuration settings, and collecting inventory. Automation documents let you automate many administrative AWS tasks that would otherwise require using the management console or CLI.

OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise and OpsWorks for Chef Automate also let you configure your instances and deploy software but do so using the declarative language of Puppet...