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Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate 2026

4.7(72,000) on Udemy·440K enrolled
Intermediate 32 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsAWSLambdaDynamoDBAPI GatewayIAMCI/CDServerless

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The go-to preparation course for the AWS Developer Associate (DVA-C02), aimed at developers building on AWS rather than designing infrastructure. With over 440,000 students it is one of the most-taken courses for this certification.

Good for: developers with some AWS or programming background preparing for the DVA-C02.

Skip if: you are new to AWS, or you want a general cloud overview.

Stephane Maarek works through the developer-facing services hands-on — Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk and the CI/CD suite — with practice tests, mapped to the certification domains. If you already use cloud tools in your work, it formalises that knowledge.

It is preparation for a test and assumes some AWS or programming background, so it is not a first cloud course. If your work is architecture rather than code, the Solutions Architect Associate is the more relevant credential. The certification comes from the separate paid AWS exam. On price, wait for a Udemy sale.

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About this course

The Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate is Stephane Maarek's course for the DVA-C02 exam — the AWS certification aimed at developers building and deploying applications on AWS rather than designing infrastructure. It covers the developer-facing services in depth: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, and the full suite of CI/CD tools (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline).

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Stephane Maarek
Udemy instructor
2M+ learners12 courses4.7 instructor rating

Stephane Maarek is a solutions architect and AWS training author whose Udemy courses have over 2 million enrolled learners. He holds 12 AWS certifications and has worked with cloud platforms professionally for over a decade. His AWS SAA course is consistently ranked as the top-selling Udemy course in the cloud category.

Frequently asked questions

No. This is exam preparation only. The Developer Associate exam, code DVA-C02, is booked and paid for separately through Pearson VUE or PSI, and currently costs around one hundred and fifty US dollars. The course gets you ready and even shows you the registration process, but the exam fee, scheduling, and the proctored test are entirely Amazon's side of things.

Some development background and comfort with core AWS ideas really help, because this is an associate-level course that assumes you can read code and think like a developer. If AWS itself is brand new to you, most people are better off doing Stephane Maarek's Cloud Practitioner course first — jumping straight in without any cloud grounding is the usual reason learners feel lost early on.

It is built around how AWS wants developers to build, so serverless is front and centre: deep coverage of Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and the CI/CD tools like CodePipeline and CodeDeploy, plus S3, ECS, Kinesis, and X-Ray. The exam leans heavily on scenario questions about wiring these together, so the course spends its time where the test actually pushes you.

Treat the practice exams as part of the same purchase, not an optional extra. The quizzes bundled into the video course are too light to simulate real exam pressure, and the DVA-C02 is famous for tricky, scenario-worded questions. Maarek sells a separate practice-exam set built for this, and nearly everyone who passes comfortably has drilled through it before sitting the real thing.

Yes. It is kept aligned with the current DVA-C02 blueprint rather than the retired DVA-C01, and Maarek has a track record of updating his AWS courses as Amazon revises the exams. A few learners feel the advanced Lambda and DynamoDB sections move a little fast compared with the networking parts, but the coverage itself matches what the exam now tests.

For someone with existing AWS exposure, four to six weeks of steady study is a common timeline. Complete beginners should expect longer, especially if they take the Cloud Practitioner course first, and everyone should budget extra time at the end purely for practice exams — reviewing why you got questions wrong is where the real readiness comes from, not just watching the videos.
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