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Master AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Exam

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Introduction

Introduction to the Course SAA-C03 Domains and Exam Guide

AWS Fundamentals

Introduction to Cloud Computing Setting Up AWS Account Global Infrastructure, Availability Zones, and Regions Overview of Core Services AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Understanding Cloud Computing Essentials— From Zero to Hero

Identity and Access Management

Introduction What Is IAM?IAM Policies IAM Users and Groups IAM Roles Restricting Policies AWS Organizations Policy Evaluation Logic IAM Identity Center Amazon Cognito Access Analyzer Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Securing AWS Resources: Managing Access with IAM

Cloud Lab - 3h 0m

AWS IAM Permission Boundaries

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Using AWS IAM Access Analyzer

Compute Services

Introduction Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Elastic Container Service Lambda Functions Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Understanding AWS Compute Services — From Zero to Hero

Amazon EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

Introduction EC2 Core Concepts Security Groups Connecting to EC2 Instances Elastic Network Interface Placement Groups Purchase Options Storage Options User Data Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Working with Instances: An Amazon EC2 Walkthrough

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Managing Instance Volumes Using EBS

Networking

Introduction Networking Refresher: IP, CIDR, Subnetting Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Custom VPC and CIDR Block Route Tables, Internet Gateways, and NAT Gateways NACL and Security Groups VPC Peering and Transit Gateway AWS PrivateLink and VPC Endpoints Bastion Hosts and EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint VPC Flow Logs and VPC Traffic Mirroring AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN Direct Connect IPv6 in VPC Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 3h 0m

Understanding Networking Services in AWS—From Zero to Hero

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Controlling VPC Traffic Using Network ACLs

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Managing Peer Connections between Amazon Virtual Private Clouds

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Accessing AWS Services over AWS PrivateLink Using VPC Endpoints

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Monitoring IP Traffic Using VPC Flow Logs

Route 53

Introduction Domain Name System Domain Registration Health Checks Routing Policies Summary and Quiz

Serverless Computing

Introduction Serverless Architectures AWS Lambda AWS Fargate SAM and SAR API Gateway REST API WebSocket API Service Integrations GraphQL for APIs AppSync Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting to Know AWS Lambda

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Building and Deploying Serverless Applications with AWS SAM

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Developing RESTful Microservices with API Gateway and DynamoDB

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Building a WebSocket-Based Chat Application Using API Gateway

Cloud Lab - 3h 0m

Mastering AWS AppSync Lambda Resolvers

Application Integration

Introduction Simple Queue Service (SQS)Features of SQS Simple Notification Service (SNS)Processing SNS Messages Fanout Architecture using Amazon SNS and SQS Amazon MQ Amazon AppFlow Event-Driven Architectures and AWS EventBridge AWS Step Functions Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Handling Amazon SNS Notifications with AWS Lambda

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Build a Fanout Serverless Architecture using SNS, SQS, and Lambda

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Decoupling Serverless Applications with Amazon EventBridge

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Getting Started with AWS Step Functions

Containers

Introduction Container and Registry Elastic Container Service (ECS)Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)EKS On-Premises Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Getting Started with Amazon ECS

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Create an EKS Cluster and Deploy an Application

High Availability and Scalability

Introduction Horizontal vs. Vertical Scalability Application Load Balancer Network Load Balancer Gateway Load Balancer Cross-Zone Load Balancing ELB Sticky Sessions SSL Certificates and SSL Offload Auto Scaling Groups Scaling Policies Lifecycle Hooks Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Managing Application Traffic Using Elastic Load Balancers

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Understanding Auto Scaling Group (ASG) in AWS

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Mastering Amazon EC2 Dynamic Scaling Policies

Storage

Introduction Types of Storage S3 Bucket Elastic Block Store (EBS)Elastic File System (EFS)Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Understanding AWS Storage Options—From Zero to Hero

Simple Storage Service (S3)

S3 Access Management

S3 Static Website Hosting

Object Versioning

Performance Optimization

S3 Events and Batch Operations

Object Storage Classes

S3 Lifecycle Rules

Access Points and Object Lambda

Select and Glacier Select

Secure Objects in an S3 Bucket

Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Working with AWS S3 Cross-Region Replication

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Resizing Images with S3 Batch Operations and AWS Lambda

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Managing Data Access with Amazon S3 Access Points

File Storage and Transfer

Introduction Amazon FSx Storage Gateway AWS Backup Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Databases

Introduction Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Aurora and Aurora Serverless Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Neptune Amazon DocumentDB Amazon Keyspaces Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)Amazon MemoryDB for Redis Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Working with Relational Databases: A Beginner's Guide to AWS RDS

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon Aurora Database Engine

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Working with NoSQL Databases: A Beginner's Guide to AWS DynamoDB

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Exploring Graphs with Amazon Neptune

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Getting Started with Amazon Keyspaces

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Achieving Ultra-Fast Performance Using Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Improving Database Performance with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Migration and Transfer

Introduction AWS Application Discovery Service AWS Migration Hub AWS Application Migration Service AWS Database Migration Service AWS DataSync AWS Snow Family AWS Transfer Family Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Use of AWS Database Migration Service from Aurora MySQL to S3

Security and Compliance

Introduction AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)Encrypting S3 Buckets and EBS Volumes Using KMS Web Application Firewall Amazon Detective AWS Directory Service AWS Secrets Manager Amazon Macie AWS Security Hub AWS Firewall Manager Amazon GuardDuty Amazon Inspector AWS Network Firewall AWS Shield AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)AWS CloudHSM AWS Audit Manager and Artifact Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting Started with AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Encrypting S3 Buckets and EBS Volumes Using KMS

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

Protecting Web Applications Using AWS WAF

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Managing Aurora DB Credentials and API Keys Using Secrets Manager

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Finding Vulnerabilities on EC2 Instances Using AWS Inspector

Deployment Services

Introduction AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS App Runner Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Mastering AWS Deployment Services—From Zero to Hero

CloudFormation

What Is CloudFormation?

Working with CloudFormation Templates

Example CloudFormation Template

CloudFormation Helper Scripts

Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Getting to Know AWS CloudFormation

Cloud Lab - 2h 0m

AWS CloudFormation Updates: Change Sets and Stack Policies

Cloud Lab - 3h 0m

Mastering AWS CloudFormation Helper Scripts

Machine Learning

Introduction Amazon Comprehend Amazon Textract Amazon Rekognition Amazon Transcribe Amazon Polly Amazon Translate Amazon SageMaker Amazon Fraud Detector Amazon Kendra Amazon Lex Amazon Forecast Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 3h 0m

Understanding Machine Learning Services on AWS—From Zero to Hero

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Deploying a Machine Learning Model with Amazon SageMaker

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon Fraud Detector

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Build an Educative Chatbot with Conversational AI Using AWS Lex

Content Delivery and Optimization

Introduction Amazon CloudFront Architecture TTL and Invalidations Secure Sockets Layer Securing Origins in CloudFront Functions at Edge Global Accelerator Summary and Quiz

Analytics

Introduction AWS Athena AWS EMR Amazon Redshift AWS Glue AWS Lake Formation Amazon QuickSight Amazon Kinesis Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka AWS Data Pipeline AWS Data Exchange Amazon OpenSearch Service Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Analyzing S3 Data and CloudTrail Logs Using Amazon Athena

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon EMR

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Getting Started with Amazon Redshift

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Building ETL Pipelines on AWS

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Create a Data Lake with Lake Formation and Analyze It with Athena

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Building a Logs Processing Pipeline with Amazon Kinesis

Cloud Lab - 2h 30m

Getting Started with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Monitoring and Auditing

Introduction Amazon CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail AWS Config CloudWatch vs. CloudTrail vs. Config Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1 hour

Monitoring EC2 Instances Using AWS CloudWatch

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting Started with AWS Config

Management and Governance

Introduction AWS Control Tower AWS License Manager AWS Systems Manager AWS Health Dashboard AWS Compute Optimizer Amazon Managed Services for Grafana and Prometheus AWS Well-Architected Tool and AWS Trusted Advisor Summary and Quiz

Cloud Lab - 1h 30m

Getting Started with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

AWS Billing and Cost Management

Introduction AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets AWS Savings Plans AWS Cost Anomaly Detection Summary and Quiz

Course Assessment

Practice Exam - 1

Practice Exam Solution - 1

Resilient Architecture I Resilient Architecture II Resilient Architecture III Secure Architecture I Secure Architecture II Secure Architecture III Secure Architecture IV Cost-Optimized Architecture I Cost-Optimized Architecture II Cost-Optimized Architecture III High-Performing Architecture I High-Performing Architecture II High-Performing Architecture III High-Performing Architecture IV

Course Assessment

Practice Exam - 2

Practice Exam Solution - 2

Resilient Architecture I Resilient Architecture II Resilient Architecture III Resilient Architecture IV Secure Architecture I Secure Architecture II Secure Architecture III Secure Architecture IV Secure Architecture V Cost-Optimized Architecture I Cost-Optimized Architecture II High-Performing Architecture I High-Performing Architecture II High-Performing Architecture III High-Performing Architecture IV

Course Assessment

Practice Exam - 3

Practice Exam Solution - 3

Resilient Architecture I Resilient Architecture II Resilient Architecture III Resilient Architecture IV Secure Architecture I Secure Architecture II Secure Architecture III Secure Architecture IV Cost-Optimized Architecture I Cost-Optimized Architecture II Cost-Optimized Architecture III High-Performing Architecture I High-Performing Architecture II High-Performing Architecture III

Wrapping Up

Introduction

Get introduced to the Simple Storage Service section.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a versatile and highly scalable object storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides developers and businesses with a secure, durable, and cost-effective solution for storing and retrieving data ranging from a few gigabytes to petabytes or more.

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Since data in a bucket can pile up exponentially, S3 offers a comprehensive suite of features to manage, secure, and efficiently consume data. In this chapter, we'll explore these features and some of the best practices to optimize costs and performance.

Overview of the feature of S3

S3 is important for the Solutions Architect (SAA - C03) exam, so get ready to dive into the details. Let's get started!

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