The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) qualification is intended for individuals who perform in a solutions architect role. The qualification validates a candidate’s ability to use AWS technologies to design solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This course prepares students for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) qualification. No exam voucher is included. This course includes labs and a digtial textbook.

Students attending this course, to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) qualification should have at least one year of hands-on experience designing cloud solutions that use AWS services.

At least one year of hands-on experience designing cloud solutions that use AWS services.

The course and qualification validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:

• Design solutions that incorporate AWS services to meet current business requirements and future projected needs
• Design architectures that are secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimised
• Review existing solutions and determine improvements

This course covers four main areas:

Design Secure Architecture

• Design secure access to AWS resources
• Design secure workloads and applications
• Determine appropriate data security controls

Design Resilient Architectures

• Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
• Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

Design High-Performing Architectures

• Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
• Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
• Determine high-performing database solutions
• Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
• Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions

Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

• Design cost-optimized storage solutions
• Design cost-optimized compute solutions
• Design cost-optimized database solutions
• Design cost-optimized network architectures