AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Course 

Introduction and How to Use the Course

The SAA-C01 Exam Blueprint

Note on Course Structure

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Introduction

Creating an AWS Free Tier Account

Modifying the Sign-in Link

Setting up a Billing Alarm

Active MFA on the Root Account

Create IAM User and Group

Configure Password Policy

AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

Virtual Private Cloud Overview

Route 53 - Register Domain

Wrap-up

Introduction

Elastic Compute Cloud Overview

Launch our first EC2 instances

Connect to Linux Instance

Connect to Windows Instance

Security Group Lab

Instance Metadata

Instance User Data

Status Checks and Monitoring

Public Private and Elastic IP addresses overview

Private IP Addresses

Public IP Addresses

Elastic IP Addresses and Elastic Network Interfaces

Private Subnets and Bastion Hosts

NAT Instances and NAT Gateways Overview

Private Subnet with NAT Gateway

Private Subnet with NAT Instance

Connect from Windows with Agent Forwarding

EC2 Placement Groups

Exam Cram - Intro, EC2 Pricing, Instance Types and AMIs

Exam Cram - IPs, ENIs, ENAs, EFAs, Placement Groups and Roles

Wrap-up

Introduction

Amazon S3 and IAM Roles Overview

Elastic Load Balancing Concepts

Classic Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer

Application Load Balancer - Path-Based Routing

Application Load Balancer - Host-Based Routing

EC2 Auto Scaling Overview

EC2 Auto Scaling Group with ALB

ASG Scaling Policies

Launch Configurations and Launch Templates

Auto Scaling Health Checks

Auto Scaling Termination Policies

Cross-Zone Load Balancing Overview and Setting up the Lab

CLB Cross-Zone Load Balancing

NLB Cross-Zone Load Balancing

ALB Cross-Zone Load Balancing

ELB Sticky Sessions

ALB Listeners and SSL TLS

Public ALB with Private Instances and Security Groups

Multi-tier Web Application and Security Groups Concepts

Proxy Protocol X-Forwarded-For and Logging

ALB/NLB Server Access and Client Logs

Exam Cram - ELB

Exam Cram - Auto Scaling

Wrap-up

Introduction

Create a Custom VPC

Security Groups

Network ACLs

VPC Peering

AWS Transit Gateway

Endpoint Services

VPC Flow Logs

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect Gateway

VPC Wizard

Exam Cram - VPC and Security Groups

Exam Cram - Network ACL and VPC Connectivity

Wrap-up

Introduction

AWS Route 53 Overview

Hosted Zones

DNS Record Types

Setting up the Lab

Health Checks

Simple Routing Policy

Weighted Routing Policy

Latency Based Routing Policy

Failover Routing Policy

Geolocation Routing Policy

Multivalue Routing Policy

Cleaning Up

Traffic Flow

AWS Route 53 Resolver

AWS Global Accelerator - Part 1

AWS Global Accelerator - Part 2

Exam Cram

Wrap-up

Introduction

Object Block and File Storage

S3 Overview

S3 Gateway Endpoints

Identity-Based and Resource-Based Policies

Identity-Based Policy Examples

Resource-Based Policy Examples

Cross Account Access

Access Control Lists

Tools for Access and Policy

Choosing Access Control Options

Multipart Upload

Query String Authentication

Transfer Acceleration

Static Websites

Versioning and MFA Delete

Cross Region Replication

Lifecycle Management

S3 Encryption

Event Notifications

Requester Pays

Server Access Logging

Object Lock

Amazon CloudFront Overview

CloudFront with Static Website and OAI

CloudFront with ALB and EC2 Custom Origin

Exam Cram - Amazon S3

Exam Cram - CloudFront

Wrap-up

Introduction

EBS and EFS Overview

EBS vs Instance Store

EBS Volume Types

Launch Instance with Multiple EBS Volumes

Attach volume to running Instance

Create Volume from Snapshot in Another AZ

Working with AMIs

Working with Snapshots

EBS Copying Sharing and Encryption

Cleaning Up EBS

EBS Performance

Creating an EFS Filesystem

Mounting an EFS Filesystem

Create a User Home Directory

Cleaning up EFS

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Lustre

AWS Storage Gateway

Exam Cram - EBS

Exam Cram - EFS and FSx

Exam Cram - Storage Gateway

Wrap-up

Introduction

AWS ECS Overview

Setting up for the Labs

Create AWS Fargate Cluster using the Console

Create Amazon ECS Cluster and Task using the ECS CLI

Manually Scaling a Cluster

Amazon ECS Cluster with Multiple Services and ALB

Scale Amazon ECS Service with Auto Scaling

Upload Image to Amazon ECR and create task on AWS Fargate

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) (optional, not currently in exam)

Exam Cram

Wrap-up

Introduction

Lambda Overview and Create Simple Function

Compute Architecture Considerations

Preparing for the Labs

Create Function to Resize Images in S3

Create function to log event when records updated in DynamoDB

API Gateway Overview

API Gateway Console Walkthrough

Build a Hello World API with Lambda Proxy Integration

Create a Simple Microservice using Lambda and API Gateway

Exam Cram

Wrap-up

Introduction

Databases Overview

Amazon RDS Overview

Install Wordpress on EC2 using RDS MySQL DB

Create Multi-AZ Replica and Failover DB

Create Amazon RDS Read Replica

Amazon Aurora Overview

Create Amazon Aurora Database and Replica

Create Amazon Aurora Cross-Region Read Replica

Create Amazon Aurora Global Database

Amazon DynamoDB Overview

Create Amazon DynamoDB Table

Create Amazon DynamoDB DAX Cluster and Test Cache

Create Amazon DynamoDB Global Table

Amazon ElastiCache Overview

Create Amazon ElastiCache Memcached Cluster

Create Amazon ElastiCache Redis Cluster

Amazon RedShift Overview and Create Cluster

Exam Cram - Amazon RDS

Exam Cram - Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache and RedShift

Wrap-up

Introduction

Amazon Kinesis Overview

Create Kinesis Data and Firehose Streams

Consume events in AWS Lambda from a Kinesis Stream

Amazon EMR Walkthrough

Amazon Athena and AWS Glue

Amazon Athena and AWS Glue Hands-on

Exam Cram

Exam Cram - Athena and Glue

Wrap-up

Introduction

Application Integration Services Overview

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

AWS Step Functions

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Amazon MQ

Exam Cram

Wrap-up

Introduction

Cloudformation vs Elastic Beanstalk

Create CloudFormation Stack - Wordpress

Create CloudFormation Stack - Wordpress Multi-AZ

Create Elastic Beanstalk Environments

Create HA Wordpress with Elastic Beanstalk and RDS

Exam Cram

Wrap-up

Introduction

CloudWatch and CloudTrail Overview

CloudWatch Walkthrough

CloudTrail Walkthrough

AWS Config

AWS Config Hands-on

Exam Cram

Exam Cram - AWS Config

Wrap-up

Introduction

IAM Exam Prep

Amazon Cognito

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

AWS CloudHSM

AWS WAF & Shield

AWS Organizations - Part 1

AWS Organizations - Part 2

IAM Identity Providers and Federation

AWS Single Sign-on

AWS Directory Service

Exam Cram - IAM

Exam Cram - AWS Cognito, KMS, CloudHSM, WAF & Shield

Exam Cram - IAM Idp, SSO, Directory Service

Wrap-up

Advice on Final Exam Preparation

Bonus Lesson: Offers for Complementary Courses