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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Crydd Score 70
Demand High
Career Value High
Recognition High
AWS DevOps Pro at a glance
- Provider
- AWS
- Credential type
- Professional Certification
- Exam required
- Yes
- Category
- DevOps & Platform
- Level
- Professional
- Cost
- About $300
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Time to earn
- 6–9 months
- Validity
- 3 years
- Format
- 75 questions, 180 minutes
- Prerequisites
- None required; AWS recommends 2+ years operating AWS environments
What is AWS DevOps Pro?
AWS's professional DevOps exam — continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, observability, and recovering from the incident at 3am. It assumes the associate material rather than repeating it.
Skills it covers
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code
- Monitoring and logging
- Incident response
- Automation
Is AWS DevOps Pro worth it? The Crydd Verdict
CS 70Choose it if
You already hold an AWS associate credential and run delivery pipelines in production.
Consider alternatives if
You have no AWS operational experience yet — this exam punishes theory without practice.
Why we say so
One of the strongest credential-to-salary relationships in cloud, backed by high demand and a syllabus that genuinely requires production experience.
Market demand
DevOps and platform-engineering roles remain among the most persistently unfilled in software, and AWS professional-tier credentials are consistently among the most highly compensated in industry surveys.
Where AWS DevOps Pro takes you
- DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Cloud Engineer
Career roadmaps show where this certification fits in each path. See the roadmaps.
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