AWS Certified Solutions Architect | Associate | Exam SAA-C03

AWS Certified Solutions Architect SAA-C03 - Associate - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) (2026) Training prepares you to design and deploy secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This course covers essential AWS services including compute, storage, networking, monitoring, automation, and security. You’ll learn architectural best practices for scalability, fault tolerance, cost optimization, and performance efficiency.

Participants will also gain knowledge of identity and access management (IAM), cloud monitoring, automation strategies, and AWS support for AI workloads and modern cloud applications.

Ideal for solutions architects, developers, cloud engineers, and IT professionals, this training helps you prepare for the official AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification while building practical cloud architecture skills for real-world environments.

Package Includes

• 12 Months Online Access featuring ondemand instructor-led classroom sessions with full audio and video lectures
• MeasureUp Exam Simulation
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• 210+ questions
• Challenge Labs (option)
  • AWS SAA-C02, module 1: Cloud Practitioner (6 Labs)
  • AWS SAA-C02, module 2: Technical Essentials (8 Labs)
  • AWS SAA-C02, module 3: Storage (5 Labs)
  • AWS SAA-C02, module 4: Elastic Compute Cloud (3 Labs)

Course content

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Architecture & the Well-Architected Framework

Course: 1 Hour

• Course Overview
• AWS Global Infrastructure Essentials
• High Availability and Fault Tolerance Foundations
• Shared Responsibility and Security Baselines
• Well-Architected Framework Fundamentals
• Documenting a Workload with the AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Turning Requirements into Architecture Decisions
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Data Security Controls

Course: 1 Hour, 22 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Data Security Controls: A Practical Decision Framework
• Data at Rest Encryption Across AWS Storage and Databases
• AWS KMS for Architects: Keys, Policies, and Usage Patterns
• Configuring KMS Key Policies in Practice
• Implementing S3 Encryption Guardrails
• Data in Transit: TLS and Certificate Lifecycle
• Data Recovery Patterns: Backups and Replication
• Implementing a Backup Plan with AWS Backup
• Data Retention and Immutability Controls
• Data Classification with Amazon Macie
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Securing Workloads and Applications

Course: 1 Hour, 15 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Threat Modeling for AWS Workloads
• VPC Security Components for Workload Design
• Segmentation Patterns for Multi-Tier Applications
• Security Groups vs. Network ACLs
• Using Session Manager for Secure Instance Administration
• Private Connectivity Patterns: Endpoints, PrivateLink, VPN, and Direct Connect
• Configuring Interface Endpoints for Private SSM Access
• Secure Application Access with TLS and Cognito
• Protecting Configuration and Credentials
• Web and DDoS Protection with WAF and Shield
• Implementing a WAF Web ACL with Managed Rules
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Securing Access to Resources

Course: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes

• Course Overview
• IAM Fundamentals: Principals, Authentication, and Authorization
• Least Privilege and Policy Evaluation Logic
• Creating a Least-Privilege Policy and Testing with Policy Simulator
• Secure Root and IAM Users: MFA, Password Policy, and Access Keys
• Federation with IAM Identity Center
• STS and Role Switching with Temporary Credentials
• Assuming a Role from CloudShell with AWS CLI
• Multi-Account Access Strategy: Organizations, SCPs, and Control Tower
• Identity Policies vs. Resource Policies: When and Why
• Detecting External Access with IAM Access Analyzer
• AccessDenied Troubleshooting Workflow
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Designing Scalable & Loosely Coupled Architectures

Course: 2 Hours, 11 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Scalable and Loosely Coupled Architecture Principles
• Multi-Tier Scaling with Load Balancing and Statelessness
• Queueing and Buffering with Amazon SQS
• Pub/Sub Fanout with Amazon SNS
• Event Routing with Amazon EventBridge
• Building an SNS-to-SQS Fanout Pipeline
• Using Amazon SNS Fanout with Multiple Amazon SQS Queues
• Workflow Orchestration with AWS Step Functions
• Orchestrating a Resilient Workflow with Retries and Catch
• API Front Doors for Decoupled Backends with API Gateway
• Implementing an Async REST Pattern with API Gateway and SQS
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): High Availability, Fault Tolerance, & Disaster Recovery

Course: 1 Hour, 50 Minutes

• Course Overview
• High Availability, Resiliency, Durability, and Fault Tolerance Fundamentals
• AWS Global Infrastructure for Resiliency
• Load Balancing for Availability and Health-Based Routing
• Self-Healing Compute with EC2 Auto Scaling Health Checks
• Deploying Multi-AZ Auto-Healing Web Tier with ALB and Auto Scaling
• Data Durability and Availability Strategies
• Disaster Recovery Strategy Selection Using RPO and RTO
• DNS Failover with Route 53 Routing Policies and Health Checks
• Configuring Route 53 Failover Records
• Service Quotas as Failure Mode
• Observability Signals for Resiliency
• Database Failover and Patterns for Resilient Applications
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): High-Performing Storage Architecture

Course: 1 Hour, 12 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Storage Decision Framework: Object vs. Block vs. File
• Amazon S3 Performance Patterns and Request Scaling
• Configuring Multipart Upload and S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Amazon EBS Volume Types and Performance Tuning
• Managing Elastic Volumes: Modifying gp3 IOPS and Throughput Online
• Amazon EFS Performance: Throughput Modes and Mount Target Design
• Configuring and Mounting Amazon EFS on an EC2 Instance
• Amazon FSx Selection Guide: Windows, Lustre, ONTAP, and OpenZFS
• Hybrid Transfer Services: DataSync, Storage Gateway, and Transfer Family
• Storage Cost and Performance: S3 Storage Classes and Intelligent-Tiering
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Amazon RDS & Aurora Database Architecture

Course: 1 Hour, 41 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Relational Database Choices on AWS: RDS vs. Aurora
• High Availability Patterns: Multi-AZ and Aurora Failover
• Read Scaling Patterns: Read Replicas and Aurora Replicas
• Connection Management with RDS Proxy
• Performance Tuning Levers: Instance Class, Storage, and Parameter Groups
• Creating an RDS Multi-AZ Deployment
• Adding and Promoting a Read Replica
• Managing Database Observability: CloudWatch Metrics and Performance Dashboards
• Scaling and Change Management: Blue/Green Deployments and Aurora Serverless v
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Resilient Compute Scaling & Elastic Load Balancing

Course: 1 Hour, 43 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Load Balancer Selection: ALB vs. NLB vs. GWLB
• Target Groups and Health Checks: Designing for Fast Failover
• Auto Scaling Policy Types: Target Tracking, Step, and Scheduled Scaling
• Warm Pools, Lifecycle Hooks, and Instance Refresh
• Configuring Application Load Balancer Listener Rules for Path and Host Routing
• Elasticity Patterns: Stateless Services and Externalizing State
• Lambda Scaling: Concurrency Controls and Cold Start Tradeoffs
• Implementing Reserved and Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
• Queue-Based Scaling with Amazon SQS Metrics
• Cost-Aware Compute Scaling: Spot, Savings Plans, and Mixed Instances
• Creating a Mixed Instances Policy-Based Auto Scaling Group with Spot Capacity
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): DynamoDB & Specialty Datastores Database Architecture

Course: 1 Hour, 59 Minutes

• Sections
• DurationStatusActions
• Course Overview
• DynamoDB Core Concepts and Access-Pattern Modeling
• Capacity Modes, Throughput, and Hot-Partition Avoidance
• Secondary Index Strategies: GSIs, LSIs, and Sparse Indexes
• Consistency, Conditional Writes, and Transactions
• Modeling and Querying DynamoDB Table with the AWS CLI
• Global Tables for Multi-Region Performance and Resilience
• Processing DynamoDB Streams with AWS Lambda
• Read Acceleration with DAX and Application Caching Choices
• DynamoDB Security: IAM, Encryption, and VPC Endpoints
• Specialty Datastore Selection: DocumentDB vs. Neptune vs. Keyspaces
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Network Architecture & Connectivity Patterns

Course: 1 Hour, 1 Minute

• Course Overview
• VPC Topology and IP Addressing Design
• Routing and Egress Patterns: IGW, NAT, and IPv6
• Private Service Access with VPC Endpoints and AWS PrivateLink
• Building a Multi-AZ VPC with Public/Private Subnets and NAT Egress
• Connectivity Decision Guide: Peering, Transit Gateway, VPN, or Direct Connect
• Connecting Two VPCs Using AWS Transit Gateway
• Network Cost Optimization: Data Transfer, NAT, and Endpoint Choices
• Route 53 Routing Policies for Scalable DNS
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Cost Management - Tagging, Budgets, & Reports

Course: 59 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Billing Structure and Cost Allocation Fundamentals
• Configuring Cost Allocation Tags and Cost Categories
• Managing Cost Explorer Reports, Filters, and Forecasts
• Creating AWS Budgets Alerts and Budget Actions
• Cost and Usage Reports: Detailed Cost Data Architecture
• Managing Querying Cost and Usage Reports with Athena
• Cost Recommendations with Trusted Advisor and Compute Optimizer
• Multi-Account Cost Governance and Showback Models
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Cost-Optimized Storage Design

Course: 1 Hour, 2 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Storage Cost Drivers and Selection Framework
• Cost-Optimized Amazon S3 Design
• Implementing S3 Lifecycle Rules and Intelligent-Tiering
• Cost-Optimized Block Storage with Amazon EBS
• Performing EBS Migration to gp3 and In-Place Right-Sizing
• Cost-Optimized File Storage: EFS and FSx Tradeoffs
• Backup and Archival Cost Strategies
• Creating an AWS Backup Plan with Lifecycle Policies
• Lowest-Cost Data Movement to AWS Storage
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Final Exam Readiness & Review

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Overview
• SAA-C03 Exam Structure, Domains, and Scoring Basics
• Build a Study Checklist Using In-Scope, Out-of-Scope, and Service Mentions
• Scenario Question Deconstruction Framework
• Answer Selection: Eliminating Distractors and Handling Multi-Response Questions
• Time Management and Review Tactics
• Domain Review Checklist: Secure and Resilient Architectures
• Domain Review Checklist: High Performance and Cost Optimization
• Final Readiness Plan and Official Prep Resources
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Caching & Edge Performance Acceleration

Course: 2 Hours, 1 Minute

• Course Overview
• Caching Strategy Fundamentals for Architects
• CloudFront Concepts: Distributions, Origins, and Cache Behaviors
• Creating a CloudFront Distribution with an S3 Origin and OAC
• Cache Policies, TTLs, File Versioning, and Invalidations
• Global Performance Choices: CloudFront vs. Global Accelerator vs. Route
• Creating a Standard Accelerator for a Regional Endpoint
• ElastiCache Design: Redis vs. Memcached, Scaling, and HA
• Deploying ElastiCache for Redis and Validating Cache-Aside from EC
• Choosing the Right Cache Layer: CloudFront, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB DAX
• Cache Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Managing API Gateway Stage Caching and Validating Cache Keys
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Data Ingestion, Transfer, & Transformation Architectures

Course: 1 Hour, 9 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Ingestion and Transformation Patterns: Batch, Micro-Batch, and Streaming
• Data Transfer Services: DataSync, Storage Gateway, Transfer Family, and Snowball
• Streaming Ingestion Architecture: Kinesis Data Streams, Data Firehose, and MSK
• Firehose Delivery to S3: Buffering, Compression, and Dynamic Partitioning
• Creating a Firehose Delivery Stream to S3 and Sending Test Records
• Transformation Choices: AWS Glue ETL vs. Lambda vs. EMR
• Data Lake Governance: Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation, Athena, and QuickSight
• Copying Data Between S3 Buckets with AWS DataSync
• Ingestion Pipeline Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Observability, Monitoring, Quotas, & Troubleshooting

Course: 1 Hour, 25 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Observability Signals: Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Events
• CloudWatch Metrics Design: KPIs, Dimensions, and High-Value Alarms
• Static Thresholds, Composite Alarms, and Outlier Detection
• Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard and Alarm for a Lambda Workload
• CloudWatch Logs Strategy: Retention, Metric Filters, and Subscriptions
• Running Query Logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights
• Distributed Tracing with AWS X-Ray: Concepts and Service Maps
• Enabling X-Ray Active Tracing for Lambda and Reviewing Traces
• Service Quotas and Throttling: Detection, Mitigation, and Requesting Increases
• Operational Health Events: AWS Health and EventBridge Notifications
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Architecture Scenarios

Course: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Turning Requirements into Architecture Decisions
• Scenario 1: Designing a Secure, Scalable Web Application
• Scenario 1 Deep Dive: Edge, DNS, and DDoS Protection Trade-Offs
• Managing the Well-Architected Tool Review for Scenario
• Scenario 2: Selecting a Disaster Recovery Strategy by RTO/RPO
• Creating a Cost Estimation Walkthrough with AWS Pricing Calculator
• Scenario 3: High-Performance Storage, Database, and Caching Choices
• Identifying Service Quotas Pre-Flight Checks for Scaling and Resilience
• Scenario 4: Hybrid Connectivity and Private Service Access Patterns
• Resolving Conflicting Requirements: A Structured Trade-Off Playbook
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Cost-Optimized Database & Analytics Design

Course: 2 Hours, 10 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Database and Analytics Cost Drivers: Selection Framework
• RDS Cost Optimization: Instance Classes, Storage, and Reserved DB Instances
• Aurora Cost Optimization: Provisioned vs. Aurora Serverless v2 and I/O Costs
• Right-Sizing RDS with Performance Insights and Compute Optimizer
• DynamoDB Cost Optimization: Capacity Modes, Auto Scaling, and Table Classes
• Switching DynamoDB Capacity Modes and Observing Cost Signals
• Cost Reduction with Caching: ElastiCache, DAX, and TTL Patterns
• Cost-Optimized Analytics: Redshift and Athena Levers
• Reducing Athena Query Cost with Partitioning and CTAS to Parquet
• Backup, Snapshot, and Retention Policies as Cost Controls
• Migration Planning: Cost and Risk Trade-Offs with DMS and SCT
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Cost-Optimized Network Architecture Design

Course: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Data Transfer Cost Fundamentals and Common Charge Patterns
• Multi-AZ and Multi-Region Patterns with Cost in Mind
• NAT Gateway Cost Controls: Placement, Scaling, and Alternatives
• Creating Gateway VPC Endpoints for S3 to Eliminate NAT Data Processing
• Interface Endpoints and AWS PrivateLink: Pricing and Design Tradeoffs
• Creating an Interface Endpoint and Restricting Access with Security Groups
• VPC Peering vs. Transit Gateway vs. PrivateLink: Cost and Operability Decisions
• Transit Gateway Charges and Cost Allocation Strategies
• Direct Connect vs. Site-to-Site VPN: When Dedicated Connectivity Pays Off
• Load Balancers and Cross-Zone: Cost Drivers and Selection Guidance
• Edge Cost Optimization with CloudFront: Price Class, Caching, and Origin Offload
• Managing Flow Logs and Athena Integration to Find Cross-AZ Hotspots
• Prevent Surprise Network Bills with Throttling and Rate Limiting
• Course Summary

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03): Cost-Optimized Compute Design

Course: 1 Hour, 8 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Compute Cost Optimization Framework
• EC2 Purchasing Options and Commitments
• Right-Sizing and Instance Family Selection
• Using AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendations
• Configuring Cost-Aware Auto Scaling with Mixed Instances and Spot
• Container Cost Optimization: ECS, Fargate, and Spot Capacity
• Optimizing AWS Lambda Cost and Performance
• Measuring Lambda Memory and Performing Concurrency Tuning
• Non-Production Workload Scheduling and Lifecycle Tactics
• Hybrid and Edge Compute Cost Considerations
• Course Summary

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