AWS Certification Prep
Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam with hands-on labs. This course maps directly to the official exam domains and walks you through designing secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures on Amazon Web Services.
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- 38 hours on-demand video
- 60 articles and resources
- 40 downloadable resources
- 20 hands-on AWS labs
- Certificate of completion
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About This Course
This course is built for IT professionals preparing to sit the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam. It follows the four official exam domains—designing secure architectures, designing resilient architectures, designing high-performing architectures, and designing cost-optimized architectures—and pairs each concept with hands-on labs in a real AWS account.
You will learn how core AWS services fit together: compute with EC2 and Lambda, storage with S3 and EBS, networking with VPC and Route 53, and managed databases such as RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB. Throughout, you will apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework to make trade-offs between reliability, performance, security, and cost. The course closes with full-length practice exams and a question-breakdown strategy so you walk into the test center knowing what to expect.
What You'll Learn
- Be ready to sit and pass the SAA-C03 exam with confidence
- Apply the shared responsibility model and AWS global infrastructure to architecture decisions
- Design least-privilege access control with IAM users, roles, and policies
- Choose the right compute, storage, and database service for a given workload
- Build multi-AZ, fault-tolerant, and decoupled architectures with ELB, SQS, and SNS
- Optimize cost and operational excellence using the Well-Architected Framework
- Monitor and audit workloads with CloudWatch and CloudTrail
Requirements
- Basic IT and networking concepts (IP addresses, ports, DNS, HTTP)
- Some prior cloud or systems administration exposure is helpful but not required
- An AWS account (the free tier covers most labs; some labs may incur minor charges)
- Comfort working in a web console and occasionally the command line
- No prior AWS certification is required to take this course
Who This Course Is For
- System administrators and IT operations staff moving into cloud roles
- Developers who want to understand the AWS services behind their applications
- Solutions architects preparing for the SAA-C03 certification exam
- DevOps engineers who need a solid foundation in AWS architecture
- Career changers with basic IT knowledge looking to enter cloud computing
- Anyone who wants a structured, lab-driven path through core AWS services
Orient yourself in AWS: how regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations are organized, and exactly where AWS's responsibility ends and yours begins.
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1.1 Regions, Availability Zones & Edge Locations
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1.2 The Shared Responsibility Model
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1.3 AWS Global Services vs. Regional Services
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1.4 Navigating the AWS Management Console & CLI
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1.5 Lab: Set Up Your Free-Tier Account & Billing Alarms
Control who can do what in your account. Learn identity-based and resource-based policies, roles for cross-account and service access, and how to enforce least privilege.
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2.1 Users, Groups, Roles & Policies
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2.2 Writing & Reading IAM Policy JSON
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2.3 MFA, Access Keys & Credential Best Practices
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2.4 KMS, Encryption at Rest & in Transit
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2.5 Lab: Build a Least-Privilege Role for EC2
Provision and right-size compute. Compare EC2 instance families and purchasing options, run serverless functions on Lambda, and scale automatically with launch templates and Auto Scaling groups.
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3.1 EC2 Instance Families & AMIs
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3.2 On-Demand, Reserved, Spot & Savings Plans
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3.3 AWS Lambda & Serverless Compute
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3.4 Launch Templates & Auto Scaling Groups
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3.5 Containers Overview: ECS, EKS & Fargate
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3.6 Lab: Launch an Auto Scaling Web Tier
Match each storage service to the right use case. Understand S3 storage classes and lifecycle rules, block storage with EBS, shared file storage with EFS, and long-term archival with Glacier.
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4.1 S3 Buckets, Objects & Storage Classes
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4.2 S3 Versioning, Lifecycle Rules & Encryption
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4.3 EBS Volume Types & Snapshots
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4.4 EFS vs. Glacier: Shared & Archival Storage
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4.5 Lab: Host a Static Site & Apply Lifecycle Rules on S3
Build a network from the ground up. Design VPCs with public and private subnets, control traffic with security groups and NACLs, connect to the internet with gateways, and manage DNS with Route 53.
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5.1 VPC, CIDR Blocks & Subnet Design
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5.2 Internet, NAT Gateways & Route Tables
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5.3 Security Groups vs. Network ACLs
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5.4 VPC Peering, Endpoints & Transit Gateway
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5.5 Route 53 Routing Policies & Health Checks
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5.6 Lab: Build a Multi-AZ VPC with Public & Private Subnets
Pick the right database for the job. Compare relational options (RDS and Aurora), the serverless NoSQL DynamoDB, and caching with ElastiCache, including replication and backup strategies.
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6.1 RDS Engines, Multi-AZ & Read Replicas
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6.2 Amazon Aurora & Aurora Serverless
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6.3 DynamoDB: Tables, Keys & Capacity Modes
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6.4 ElastiCache & Choosing a Database
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6.5 Lab: Deploy a Multi-AZ RDS Instance
Design architectures that survive failure and scale on demand. Distribute traffic with Elastic Load Balancing, decouple components with SQS and SNS, and add a global edge with CloudFront.
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7.1 Elastic Load Balancing: ALB, NLB & GWLB
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7.2 Decoupling with Amazon SQS
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7.3 Fan-Out Messaging with Amazon SNS
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7.4 CloudFront & Global Content Delivery
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7.5 Lab: Decouple a Workload with SQS & Auto Scaling
Operate efficiently and observe everything. Apply the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework, control spend with Cost Explorer and Budgets, and monitor and audit with CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
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8.1 The Six Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
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8.2 Cost Optimization: Pricing Models & Trusted Advisor
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8.3 Cost Explorer, Budgets & Tagging Strategies
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8.4 Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
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8.5 Auditing & Governance with CloudTrail & Config
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8.6 Lab: Build a CloudWatch Dashboard & Alarms
Convert knowledge into a passing score. Learn the SAA-C03 exam format and domain weightings, practice question-elimination techniques, and sit two timed full-length practice exams with detailed answer reviews.
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9.1 SAA-C03 Exam Format & Domain Weightings
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9.2 Reading Scenario Questions & Eliminating Distractors
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9.3 Timed Practice Exam 1 (65 Questions)
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9.4 Timed Practice Exam 2 (65 Questions)
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9.5 Detailed Answer Review & Next Steps
Priya Nair
AWS-Certified Cloud Solutions Architect
About the Instructor
Priya Nair is a cloud solutions architect with over 11 years of experience designing and migrating enterprise workloads to AWS. She holds the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, and AWS Certified Security – Specialty certifications.
She has led cloud migrations and Well-Architected reviews for fintech and healthcare organizations, where reliability, security, and cost control were non-negotiable. Priya has spent the last six years teaching cloud architecture, helping thousands of students move from on-premises backgrounds into AWS roles and pass their certification exams.
Priya holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and is an active contributor to cloud community meetups. She designed this course around the exact SAA-C03 exam domains so that every lesson maps to something you will be tested on.
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Daniel Okafor
I passed the SAA-C03 on my first attempt after finishing this course. The hands-on VPC and Auto Scaling labs were what made the networking and high-availability concepts finally stick. The two practice exams felt very close to the real thing.
Maria Gonzalez
Coming from a sysadmin background, the IAM and storage modules were exactly the level of depth I needed. Priya explains the trade-offs clearly instead of just listing services. I dropped a star only because a couple of labs assume you are comfortable with the CLI, which slowed me down at first.
James Whitfield
The Well-Architected and cost-optimization module changed how I think about design, not just for the exam but for my actual job. The exam-strategy section on eliminating distractor answers was genuinely useful on test day. Highly recommended for anyone serious about the Associate cert.
No. No course can guarantee a pass—the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is administered independently by AWS, and your result depends on your own study and the questions you receive on the day. What this course does is cover every domain on the SAA-C03 exam guide, give you hands-on practice, and provide timed practice exams so you can gauge your readiness. Students who complete all modules and the practice exams report strong pass rates, but the outcome is ultimately up to you.
You do not need prior AWS experience. You should be comfortable with basic IT and networking concepts such as IP addresses, ports, and DNS. Some exposure to cloud or systems administration is helpful and will let you move faster, but the course introduces each AWS service from first principles.
No. The course price covers the training, labs, and practice exams only. The official SAA-C03 exam is purchased separately from AWS and is booked through their testing partner. We walk you through how to register and what to expect on exam day.
Most labs are designed to stay within the AWS Free Tier. A few labs that use services outside the free tier may incur small charges, typically a few cents to a few dollars if you clean up resources promptly. Each lab includes clear teardown instructions, and Module 1 shows you how to set up billing alarms so there are no surprises.
The course is structured over 8 weeks at roughly 6 hours per week, which includes watching the lessons, completing the labs, and taking the practice exams. With lifetime access you can move faster or slower as your schedule allows. Many students add a week or two of focused practice-exam review before booking the real test.
This course targets the current AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam, code SAA-C03. The content is aligned to the four official exam domains. When AWS updates the exam version, we update the course and you receive the new content at no extra cost.
Yes. You will receive an EducaWeb certificate of completion once you finish all the modules and labs. Note that this is separate from the official AWS certification, which is awarded only by AWS after you pass the SAA-C03 exam. You can add the EducaWeb certificate to your LinkedIn profile to show you completed the training.
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