Intermediate Cloud Infrastructure
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate (SAA-C03) exam and learn to design architectures that are secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized on AWS. Go beyond knowing services to choosing the right one for the job: multi-AZ and multi-Region designs, decoupling with queues and load balancers, the right storage and database for each workload, and the trade-offs the exam tests. The natural next step after Cloud Practitioner and the most in-demand AWS certification.
5 modules 15 lessons 8 h 350 questions
Course content
1 AWS Foundations & Core Services 3 lessons · 24 min
2 Designing Secure Architectures 3 lessons · 23 min
3 Resilient & Highly Available Architectures 3 lessons · 25 min
4 High-Performing & Scalable Architectures 3 lessons · 24 min
5 Cost Optimization & Well-Architected 3 lessons · 22 min
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Foundations
Region vs. Availability Zone vs. Edge Location
Master AWS global infrastructure before anything else
Compute
Decode EC2 Instance Families at a Glance
The letter tells you what the instance is optimized for
Storage
S3 vs. EBS vs. EFS: Pick by Access Pattern
Object, block, and file storage solve different problems
Networking
Public vs. Private Subnet: It's About the Route Table
A subnet is public only if it routes to an Internet Gateway