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

Spot Instance Interruption Notices and Handling

Objective 4.1

EC2 Hibernation

Objective 4.1

Standard vs Convertible Reserved Instances

Objective 4.1

On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Objective 4.1

Fargate Spot for Cost Savings

Objective 4.3

Aurora Serverless v2 Cost vs Provisioned

Objective 4.4

DynamoDB On-Demand vs Provisioned Cost

Objective 4.4

S3 Intelligent-Tiering for Automated Cost Optimization

Objective 4.2

Glacier Retrieval Options and Costs

Objective 4.2

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

Objective 4.4

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

Objective 4.4

NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance Cost

Objective 4.4

Lambda Cost: ARM vs x86, Memory Tuning

Objective 4.3

Cost Allocation Tags for Chargeback

Objective 4.4

AWS Budgets Actions

Objective 4.4

AWS Compute Optimizer

Objective 4.5

Cost Anomaly Detection

Objective 4.4

CloudFront Pricing Tiers and Price Classes

Objective 4.4

CloudWatch Cost: Logs Ingestion and Custom Metrics

Objective 4.4

Step Functions Express vs Standard Workflows Cost

Objective 4.3

AWS Organizations Consolidated Billing

Objective 4.4

ElastiCache Reserved Nodes

Objective 4.4

Redshift Reserved Nodes and Concurrency Scaling

Objective 4.4

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

AWS IAM Advanced: Roles, Policies, STS

Objective 1.1 · Secure Architectures

VPC Security: Security Groups, NACLs, Flow Logs

Objective 1.1

Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store

Objective 1.2

Service Control Policies and AWS Organizations

Objective 1.4

S3 Security: Bucket Policies, ACLs, Encryption

Objective 1.5 · Secure Architectures

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

Objective 1.1

IAM Cross-Account Role Assumptions

Objective 1.1

IAM Permission Boundaries

Objective 1.1

AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO) and SAML Federation

Objective 1.1

AWS Directory Service: AD Connector vs Managed AD

Objective 1.1

Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools

Objective 1.1

STS: AssumeRole, GetSessionToken, and Web Identity

Objective 1.1

Cross-Account S3 Access Patterns

Objective 1.5

S3 Pre-Signed URLs and Access Points

Objective 1.5

S3 Bucket Policies vs ACLs

Objective 1.5

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

Objective 1.2

S3 Object Lock and WORM Compliance

Objective 1.5

KMS Key Policies and Grants

Objective 1.2

Customer Managed Keys vs AWS Managed Keys vs Customer Provided

Objective 1.2

AWS CloudHSM vs AWS KMS

Objective 1.2

Secrets Manager Automatic Rotation

Objective 1.2

Parameter Store Advanced Tiers and SecureString

Objective 1.2

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Objective 1.3

AWS Shield Advanced

Objective 1.3

AWS WAF Rule Groups and Managed Rules

Objective 1.3

AWS Firewall Manager

Objective 1.3

VPC Endpoints: Gateway vs Interface vs GWLB

Objective 1.1

AWS PrivateLink for SaaS Services

Objective 1.1

AWS Transit Gateway

Objective 1.1

VPC Flow Logs for Security Analysis

Objective 1.1

NACLs vs Security Groups: Deep Dive

Objective 1.1

VPC Network Access Analyzer

Objective 1.1

CloudTrail Advanced: Multi-Region, Integrity, Organization Trail

Objective 1.4

AWS Config Rules and Conformance Packs

Objective 1.4

AWS Security Hub

Objective 1.4

Amazon GuardDuty

Objective 1.4

Amazon Inspector v2

Objective 1.4

Amazon Detective

Objective 1.4

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Objective 1.4

AWS Organizations: OUs, SCPs, and Hierarchy

Objective 1.4

AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone

Objective 1.4

AWS Audit Manager

Objective 1.4

ECR Image Scanning and Lifecycle Policies

Objective 1.5

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

Auto Scaling Groups

Objective 2.1

Elastic Load Balancing Types

Objective 2.2 · Resilient Architectures

RDS and Aurora: Multi-AZ and Read Replicas

Objective 2.3

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

Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS

Objective 2.6

EC2 Instance Type Families and Use Cases

Objective 2.1

Spot Fleet Strategies: Lowest Price, Diversified, Capacity Optimized

Objective 2.1

ASG Lifecycle Hooks

Objective 2.1

ASG Scheduled and Predictive Scaling

Objective 2.1

ASG Termination Policies

Objective 2.1

EC2 Target Tracking Scaling

Objective 2.1

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

Objective 2.2

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

Objective 2.2

Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) for Inline Security

Objective 2.2

ALB Sticky Sessions and Connection Draining

Objective 2.2

RDS Read Replicas: Cross-Region and Promotion

Objective 2.3

RDS Multi-AZ: Synchronous Replication and Failover

Objective 2.3

Amazon RDS Proxy

Objective 2.3

RDS Blue/Green Deployments

Objective 2.3

Aurora Global Database

Objective 2.3

Aurora Serverless v2 Scaling

Objective 2.3

Aurora Backtrack and Database Cloning

Objective 2.3

Aurora Auto-Scaling Read Replicas

Objective 2.3

DynamoDB Streams and Event Processing

Objective 2.3

DynamoDB Global Tables

Objective 2.3

DynamoDB Transactions

Objective 2.3

DynamoDB Point-in-Time Recovery

Objective 2.3

S3 Versioning and MFA Delete

Objective 2.4

CloudFront Origin Groups and Failover

Objective 2.5

CloudFront Signed URLs and Signed Cookies

Objective 2.5

Route 53 Health Checks and DNS Failover

Objective 2.5

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones

Objective 2.5

Route 53 Resolver Endpoints for Hybrid DNS

Objective 2.5

Global Accelerator vs CloudFront: When to Use Each

Objective 2.5

Pilot Light DR Pattern on AWS

Objective 2.6

Warm Standby DR Pattern on AWS

Objective 2.6

AWS Backup Service

Objective 2.6

AWS Resilience Hub

Objective 2.6

ECS Fargate: Task Placement and Availability

Objective 2.1

EKS Multi-AZ Node Groups

Objective 2.1

Lambda Destinations and Dead Letter Queues

Objective 2.1

Lambda Concurrency: Reserved and Provisioned

Objective 2.1

SQS Dead Letter Queues

Objective 2.1

SQS Message Visibility Timeout

Objective 2.1

SQS Long Polling vs Short Polling

Objective 2.1

EventBridge Rules, Event Buses, and Replay

Objective 2.1

Step Functions Error Handling and Retries

Objective 2.1

ElastiCache Redis Cluster Mode and Replication

Objective 2.3

EFS Multi-AZ Mount Targets

Objective 2.1

EC2 Launch Templates

Objective 2.1

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

Lambda Architecture Patterns

Objective 3.3 · High Performance

CloudFront Distribution Design

Objective 3.4 · High Performance

EFS vs FSx for Storage

Objective 3.5

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

AWS Graviton Processors

Objective 3.1

EC2 Instance Store Volumes

Objective 3.1

EBS Performance: IOPS, Throughput, io2 Block Express

Objective 3.1

EBS Multi-Attach for io1/io2

Objective 3.1

ECS Task Definitions and Container Definitions

Objective 3.3

ECS Service Discovery and AWS Service Connect

Objective 3.3

EKS Networking: AWS VPC CNI Plugin

Objective 3.3

Lambda Performance: Memory, Cold Starts, and Init Duration

Objective 3.3

Lambda Layers and Container Images

Objective 3.3

Lambda@Edge vs CloudFront Functions

Objective 3.4

API Gateway: REST vs HTTP vs WebSocket

Objective 3.7

API Gateway Caching and Throttling

Objective 3.7

API Gateway Lambda Authorizers and JWT Authorizers

Objective 3.7

API Gateway VPC Link

Objective 3.7

AWS AppSync for GraphQL APIs

Objective 3.7

DynamoDB Capacity: On-Demand vs Provisioned

Objective 3.6

DynamoDB GSI and LSI

Objective 3.6

DynamoDB Partition Key Design Patterns

Objective 3.6

DynamoDB PartiQL

Objective 3.6

DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Objective 3.6

S3 Performance: Multi-Part Upload and Transfer Acceleration

Objective 3.4

S3 Select and Glacier Select

Objective 3.4

S3 Batch Operations

Objective 3.4

CloudFront Cache Behaviors and TTL

Objective 3.4

CloudFront Functions for Edge Logic

Objective 3.4

Kinesis Data Streams: Shards and Consumers

Objective 3.2

Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Streams

Objective 3.2

Kinesis Data Analytics (Managed Apache Flink)

Objective 3.2

SQS FIFO Queues and Deduplication

Objective 3.2

Amazon MSK for Apache Kafka

Objective 3.2

ElastiCache Redis vs Memcached Use Cases

Objective 3.1

Amazon Redshift for Data Warehousing

Objective 3.1

Redshift Spectrum for S3 Queries

Objective 3.1

Amazon Athena Query Optimization

Objective 3.1

AWS Glue for ETL

Objective 3.1

Amazon EMR for Big Data Processing

Objective 3.1

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Objective 3.1

AWS DataSync for Data Transfer

Objective 3.5

AWS Storage Gateway: File, Volume, Tape

Objective 3.5

AWS Transfer Family (SFTP/FTP/FTPS)

Objective 3.5

FSx for Lustre for HPC

Objective 3.5

FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Objective 3.5

EFS Performance Modes and Throughput Modes

Objective 3.5

Aurora Machine Learning Integration

Objective 3.6

RDS Performance Insights

Objective 3.6

AWS Wavelength and Local Zones

Objective 3.1

Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for HPC

Objective 3.1