Course
Study AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) by track. Practice designs in the Lab — separate from these study modules.
Practical
Design checkpoints
1 · Foundations
IAM, VPC, Well-Architected
2 · Core services
EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, R53
3 · Architect
HA, cost, hybrid, migrate
Lab · Design
Architecture scenarios
Study track
Practical Lab assessments
Architecture design checkpoints — pick services, reason about HA, cost, and security.
1. Practical — Architecture checkpoints
Design decisions against Lab scenarios. Assumes cloud fundamentals familiarity.
- Three-tier HA checkpoint (20 min)
- Global static + hybrid checkpoint (20 min)
Study track
Cloud foundations
IAM, VPC basics, shared responsibility, and Well-Architected.
2. Accounts, IAM & shared responsibility
Identity boundaries, least privilege, and who owns which security controls.
- Shared responsibility model (12 min)
- IAM users, roles, and policies (15 min)
3. VPC & Well-Architected basics
Networking building blocks and the six Well-Architected pillars.
- VPC, subnets, and gateways (15 min)
- Well-Architected Framework (12 min)
Study track
Core services
EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, and Route 53 for SAA.
4. Compute & load balancing
EC2, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing patterns for SAA.
- EC2 and Auto Scaling (14 min)
- Elastic Load Balancing (12 min)
5. Storage, database & DNS
S3, RDS, and Route 53 building blocks for common architectures.
- S3 storage classes and access (14 min)
- RDS Multi-AZ and Route 53 (14 min)
Study track
Architect for SAA
HA, cost, security, migration, hybrid, and exam-style scenarios.
6. HA, cost & security patterns
Exam-ready tradeoffs for resilience, spend, and defense in depth.
- High availability patterns (15 min)
- Cost and security tradeoffs (15 min)
7. Migration & hybrid scenarios
Move workloads and connect on-premises environments the exam way.
- Migration strategies (14 min)
- Hybrid networking exam scenarios (12 min)