AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03The Complete Beginner's Guide

Serverless Architecture for Cost Savings

Objective 4.3 · Cost Optimized

EC2 Pricing: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot

Objective 4.1 · Cost Optimized

S3 Storage Classes and Lifecycle

Objective 4.2 · Cost Optimized

AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

Rightsizing and Trusted Advisor

Objective 4.5 · Cost Optimized

Compute and EC2 Savings Plans

Objective 4.1 · Cost Optimized

Spot Instance Interruption Notices and Handling

Objective 4.1 · Cost Optimized

EC2 Hibernation

Objective 4.1 · Cost Optimized

Standard vs Convertible Reserved Instances

Objective 4.1 · Cost Optimized

On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Objective 4.1 · Cost Optimized

Fargate Spot for Cost Savings

Objective 4.3 · Cost Optimized

Aurora Serverless v2 Cost vs Provisioned

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

DynamoDB On-Demand vs Provisioned Cost

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

S3 Intelligent-Tiering for Automated Cost Optimization

Objective 4.2 · Cost Optimized

Glacier Retrieval Options and Costs

Objective 4.2 · Cost Optimized

AWS Data Transfer Costs: Same AZ, Cross-AZ, Internet

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

VPC Gateway Endpoints for S3/DynamoDB (Free vs NAT)

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance Cost

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

Lambda Cost: ARM vs x86, Memory Tuning

Objective 4.3 · Cost Optimized

Cost Allocation Tags for Chargeback

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

AWS Budgets Actions

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

AWS Compute Optimizer

Objective 4.5 · Cost Optimized

Cost Anomaly Detection

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

CloudFront Pricing Tiers and Price Classes

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

CloudWatch Cost: Logs Ingestion and Custom Metrics

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

Step Functions Express vs Standard Workflows Cost

Objective 4.3 · Cost Optimized

AWS Organizations Consolidated Billing

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

ElastiCache Reserved Nodes

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

Redshift Reserved Nodes and Concurrency Scaling

Objective 4.4 · Cost Optimized

AWS Network Firewall

Objective 1.3 · Secure Architectures

Amazon Macie for S3 Data Discovery

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS KMS and Encryption Strategies

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

AWS WAF and Shield

Objective 1.3 · Secure Architectures

AWS IAM Advanced: Roles, Policies, STS

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

VPC Security: Security Groups, NACLs, Flow Logs

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

Service Control Policies and AWS Organizations

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

S3 Security: Bucket Policies, ACLs, Encryption

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

IAM Policy Types: Identity, Resource, Permission Boundary, SCP

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

IAM Cross-Account Role Assumptions

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

IAM Permission Boundaries

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO) and SAML Federation

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

AWS Directory Service: AD Connector vs Managed AD

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

STS: AssumeRole, GetSessionToken, and Web Identity

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

Cross-Account S3 Access Patterns

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

S3 Pre-Signed URLs and Access Points

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

S3 Bucket Policies vs ACLs

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

S3 Encryption: SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, SSE-C, Client-Side

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

S3 Object Lock and WORM Compliance

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

KMS Key Policies and Grants

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

Customer Managed Keys vs AWS Managed Keys vs Customer Provided

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

AWS CloudHSM vs AWS KMS

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

Secrets Manager Automatic Rotation

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

Parameter Store Advanced Tiers and SecureString

Objective 1.2 · Secure Architectures

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Objective 1.3 · Secure Architectures

AWS Shield Advanced

Objective 1.3 · Secure Architectures

AWS WAF Rule Groups and Managed Rules

Objective 1.3 · Secure Architectures

AWS Firewall Manager

Objective 1.3 · Secure Architectures

VPC Endpoints: Gateway vs Interface vs GWLB

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

AWS PrivateLink for SaaS Services

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

AWS Transit Gateway

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

VPC Flow Logs for Security Analysis

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

NACLs vs Security Groups: Deep Dive

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

VPC Network Access Analyzer

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

CloudTrail Advanced: Multi-Region, Integrity, Organization Trail

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS Config Rules and Conformance Packs

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS Security Hub

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

Amazon GuardDuty

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

Amazon Inspector v2

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

Amazon Detective

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS Organizations: OUs, SCPs, and Hierarchy

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

AWS Audit Manager

Objective 1.4 · Secure Architectures

ECR Image Scanning and Lifecycle Policies

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

EC2 Placement Groups: Cluster, Spread, Partition

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

RDS Cost Optimization: Multi-AZ vs Snapshot Restore

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

Multi-Site Active-Active DR on AWS

Objective 2.6 · Resilient Architectures

EC2 Instance Types and Placement Groups

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

Auto Scaling Groups

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

Elastic Load Balancing Types

Objective 2.2 · Resilient Architectures

RDS and Aurora: Multi-AZ and Read Replicas

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

S3 Cross-Region and Same-Region Replication

Objective 2.4 · Resilient Architectures

Route 53 Routing Policies

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

AWS Global Accelerator vs CloudFront

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS

Objective 2.6 · Resilient Architectures

EC2 Instance Type Families and Use Cases

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

Spot Fleet Strategies: Lowest Price, Diversified, Capacity Optimized

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

ASG Lifecycle Hooks

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

ASG Scheduled and Predictive Scaling

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

ASG Termination Policies

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

EC2 Target Tracking Scaling

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

ALB: Path-Based, Host-Based, and Header Routing

Objective 2.2 · Resilient Architectures

NLB: Static IPs, TLS Termination, Ultra-Low Latency

Objective 2.2 · Resilient Architectures

Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) for Inline Security

Objective 2.2 · Resilient Architectures

ALB Sticky Sessions and Connection Draining

Objective 2.2 · Resilient Architectures

RDS Read Replicas: Cross-Region and Promotion

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

RDS Multi-AZ: Synchronous Replication and Failover

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

Amazon RDS Proxy

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

RDS Blue/Green Deployments

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

Aurora Global Database

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

Aurora Serverless v2 Scaling

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

Aurora Backtrack and Database Cloning

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

Aurora Auto-Scaling Read Replicas

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

DynamoDB Streams and Event Processing

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

DynamoDB Global Tables

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

DynamoDB Transactions

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

DynamoDB Point-in-Time Recovery

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

S3 Versioning and MFA Delete

Objective 2.4 · Resilient Architectures

CloudFront Origin Groups and Failover

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

CloudFront Signed URLs and Signed Cookies

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

Route 53 Health Checks and DNS Failover

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

Route 53 Resolver Endpoints for Hybrid DNS

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

Global Accelerator vs CloudFront: When to Use Each

Objective 2.5 · Resilient Architectures

Pilot Light DR Pattern on AWS

Objective 2.6 · Resilient Architectures

Warm Standby DR Pattern on AWS

Objective 2.6 · Resilient Architectures

AWS Backup Service

Objective 2.6 · Resilient Architectures

AWS Resilience Hub

Objective 2.6 · Resilient Architectures

ECS Fargate: Task Placement and Availability

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

EKS Multi-AZ Node Groups

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

Lambda Destinations and Dead Letter Queues

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

Lambda Concurrency: Reserved and Provisioned

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

SQS Dead Letter Queues

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

SQS Message Visibility Timeout

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

SQS Long Polling vs Short Polling

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

EventBridge Rules, Event Buses, and Replay

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

Step Functions Error Handling and Retries

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

ElastiCache Redis Cluster Mode and Replication

Objective 2.3 · Resilient Architectures

EFS Multi-AZ Mount Targets

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

EC2 Launch Templates

Objective 2.1 · Resilient Architectures

SNS Message Filtering and Fan-Out Pattern

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

FSx for Windows File Server

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

Amazon ElastiCache: Redis vs Memcached

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

SQS vs SNS vs Kinesis

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

Lambda Architecture Patterns

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

CloudFront Distribution Design

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

EFS vs FSx for Storage

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

DynamoDB Design Patterns

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

API Gateway Integration Patterns

Objective 3.7 · High Performance

EC2 Enhanced Networking and SR-IOV

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

AWS Graviton Processors

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

EC2 Instance Store Volumes

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

EBS Performance: IOPS, Throughput, io2 Block Express

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

EBS Multi-Attach for io1/io2

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

ECS Task Definitions and Container Definitions

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

ECS Service Discovery and AWS Service Connect

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

EKS Networking: AWS VPC CNI Plugin

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

Lambda Performance: Memory, Cold Starts, and Init Duration

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

Lambda Layers and Container Images

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

Lambda@Edge vs CloudFront Functions

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

API Gateway: REST vs HTTP vs WebSocket

Objective 3.7 · High Performance

API Gateway Caching and Throttling

Objective 3.7 · High Performance

API Gateway Lambda Authorizers and JWT Authorizers

Objective 3.7 · High Performance

API Gateway VPC Link

Objective 3.7 · High Performance

AWS AppSync for GraphQL APIs

Objective 3.7 · High Performance

DynamoDB Capacity: On-Demand vs Provisioned

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

DynamoDB GSI and LSI

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

DynamoDB Partition Key Design Patterns

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

DynamoDB PartiQL

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

S3 Performance: Multi-Part Upload and Transfer Acceleration

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

S3 Select and Glacier Select

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

S3 Batch Operations

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

CloudFront Cache Behaviors and TTL

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

CloudFront Functions for Edge Logic

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

Kinesis Data Streams: Shards and Consumers

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Streams

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

Kinesis Data Analytics (Managed Apache Flink)

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

SQS FIFO Queues and Deduplication

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

Amazon MSK for Apache Kafka

Objective 3.2 · High Performance

ElastiCache Redis vs Memcached Use Cases

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

Amazon Redshift for Data Warehousing

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

Redshift Spectrum for S3 Queries

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

Amazon Athena Query Optimization

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

AWS Glue for ETL

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

Amazon EMR for Big Data Processing

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

AWS DataSync for Data Transfer

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

AWS Storage Gateway: File, Volume, Tape

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

AWS Transfer Family (SFTP/FTP/FTPS)

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

FSx for Lustre for HPC

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

EFS Performance Modes and Throughput Modes

Objective 3.5 · High Performance

Aurora Machine Learning Integration

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

RDS Performance Insights

Objective 3.6 · High Performance

AWS Wavelength and Local Zones

Objective 3.1 · High Performance

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for HPC

Objective 3.1 · High Performance