AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate

Event-Driven Operations Automation

Wire routine operational work to run itself: S3 Event Notifications and their delivery guarantees, direct destinations versus EventBridge, EventBridge Scheduler for time-based work, choosing where a schedule lives among four AWS mechanisms, Lambda versus an Automation runbook, and Change Calendar as a guardrail.

Intermediate 24 minutes 6 Learning Objectives
  1. Configure S3 Event Notifications and account for at-least-once delivery, variable latency, and the recursion hazard
  2. Choose between an S3 direct destination and routing S3 events through EventBridge
  3. Select EventBridge Scheduler for time-based automation and explain what it adds over a scheduled rule
  4. Decide where a recurring operational task should be scheduled among EventBridge Scheduler, a maintenance window, a State Manager association, and a scheduled rule
  5. Choose between a Lambda function and a Systems Manager Automation runbook as the action behind an event
  6. Use Change Calendar to block automation during a freeze, and describe the two calendar types