Management and Governance
RecognitionAWS DevOps Agent
Newly added and named in remediation/event automation; high-volatility, task-bounded depth.
Key points
- DevOps Agent can contribute operational analysis or recommendations but does not replace telemetry, approval, or scoped execution.
Best-known use cases
- D1.1, D1.2, and D3.1: validate a named agent recommendation against measured evidence before approving a bounded action.
What candidates often confuse it with
- DevOps Agent assists analysis; CloudWatch supplies telemetry and Systems Manager or deployment services execute governed changes.
Key takeaway
Keep agent-assisted remediation inside existing authorization, rollback, verification, and audit controls.
Related services
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS CDK
- AWS CloudFormation
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.1 — Task 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
- 1.1.1 — Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI).
- D1.2 — Task 1.2: Identify and remediate issues by using monitoring and availability metrics.
- 1.2.1 — Analyze performance metrics and automate remediation strategies by using AWS services and functionality (for example, CloudWatch, Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, CloudTrail, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent).
- D3.1 — Task 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resources.
- 3.1.1 — Create and manage AMIs and container images (for example, EC2 Image Builder).