SOA-C02 Retired: What Replaced It and What Carries Over

SOA-C02

Retired exam

SOA-C02 was retired on September 29, 2025

AWS retired SOA-C02 on 2025-09-29. SOA-C03 is the named replacement path.

Prepare for SOA-C03: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03)

Historical SOA-C02 Domains

1 Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation 20%
  • 1.1Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services
    Identify, collect, analyze, and export logs (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS CloudTrail logs); Collect metrics and logs by using the CloudWatch agent; Create CloudWatch alarms; Create metric filters; Create CloudWatch dashboards; Configure notifications (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Service Quotas, CloudWatch alarms, AWS Health events)
  • 1.2Remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics
    Troubleshoot or take corrective actions based on notifications and alarms; Configure Amazon EventBridge rules to invoke actions; Use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks to take action based on AWS Config rules
2 Reliability and Business Continuity 16%
  • 2.1Implement scalability and elasticity
3 Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation 18%
4 Security and Compliance 16%
5 Networking and Content Delivery 18%
6 Cost and Performance Optimization 12%