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AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Design secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized architectures (SAA-C03)
A classroom course in designing systems on AWS, built on the four domains of the official SAA-C03 exam guide and the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Each design topic is practised in lab exercises before it is examined in case studies.
10Modules
IntermediateLevel
4 monthsDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Design solutions on AWS that meet current requirements and projected needs
Design architectures that are secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized
Build and connect VPCs, compute, storage and database services in labs
Review an existing solution and determine improvements
Sit the SAA-C03 exam having covered every domain of its guide
Course outline
01
AWS foundations: accounts, IAM and the Well-Architected Framework
02
Secure access: IAM policies, AWS Organizations and encryption with KMS
03
Networking: VPC design, routing and hybrid connectivity
04
Compute: EC2, Auto Scaling, containers and Lambda
05
Storage: S3, EBS, EFS and data lifecycle
06
Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB and caching
07
Resilient architectures: multi-AZ, decoupling and disaster recovery
08
High-performing architectures: load balancing, CloudFront and scaling
09
Cost-optimized architectures
10
Architecture case studies and exam practice
Tools you will use
Amazon VPCAmazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon RDSAmazon DynamoDBAWS LambdaAmazon CloudFrontAWS IAMAWS KMS
What you need
Basic understanding of networking and operating systems
AWS Cloud Practitioner knowledge or equivalent