AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

Explore AWS free tier types, 12 month, always free, and short term trials, and track monthly usage and pricing in the management console to avoid overage.

prevent unexpected AWS bills by creating cost budgets, setting monthly limits, and receiving alerts, while exploring cost, user, and saving plan budgets, plus spot and reserved instances.

Explore how the AWS pricing calculator estimates costs for services like EC2, S3, and CloudFront, enabling cost optimization, future cost forecasting, and budget planning across regions and configurations.

Explore Cost Explorer to view cost and usage data, analyze spending by service, instance, or tag, and forecast the next 12 months with custom reports.

Discover how to use tags to categorize AWS resources like EC2 instances by department and environment, and filter and analyze costs with tag-based reports.

Explore AWS core services by category: compute, storage, database, network, security and identity, analytics, management, application integration, and developer services.

Learn about AWS compute services and EC2, a scalable platform to run virtual machines with flexible instance types, memory and GPU options for web hosting and other workloads.

Compare EC2 root device types, detailing instance store and EBS, their persistence and performance trade-offs, including I1/I2 multi-attachment capabilities.

Discover Elastic block store essentials for EC2: attach multiple EBS volumes, resize, snapshot, and move them between instances and zones, with general purpose, provisioned IOPs, throughput, and cold volume types.

Explore elastic file system (EFS) to run Linux workloads with a fully managed network file system for EC2, offering cross-zone replication, concurrent access, storage classes, lifecycle management, and throughput options.

Security groups act as virtual firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic with allow rules, attaching up to five security groups per EC2 into a single rule set.

Explore how network access control lists act as a virtual firewall at the subnet level, governing inbound and outbound traffic for web, application, and database components in a VPC.

Learn how content delivery networks reduce latency by caching content at globally distributed points of presence, using CloudFront, Route 53, S3 Transfer Acceleration, Direct Connect, and Global Accelerator.

CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, caches content at edge locations to deliver static and dynamic content with low latency, while offering SSL/TLS encryption, signed URLs, geo restrictions, and Shield/WAF protection.

activate internet gateway to enable scalable, secure connectivity between your VPC and the internet; attach to a VPC, reference the route tables, require public IP addresses, and leverage NAT options.

Explore AWS elastic load balancing that distributes traffic across multiple EC2 instances to keep applications available, with application and network load balancers handling http/https routing and health checks.

Explore AWS VPC, a secure, isolated cloud network for apps with IPv4/IPv6, subnets, security groups, NAT, internet gateway, VPC peering, transit gateway, and VPC flow logs.

Explore how AWS governance services secure and govern cloud resources through automation, monitoring, and policy enforcement using CloudTrail, CloudWatch, System Manager, Control Tower, AWS Config, and IAM.

Explore AWS core services across compute, storage, database, networking, and security. Learn management, analytics, applications integration, and developer tools that support cloud applications.

Explore aws compute services that run virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions, with scalable provisioning, covering networks, storage, and databases; examine ec2, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lambda for hosting and scaling.

Select the dedicated host option to run one or more EC2 instances on a dedicated physical server, enabling per-socket per-core or per-VM licenses and supporting compliance requirements.

Explore how to compare EC2 instance types and on-demand pricing across regions, selecting general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, or storage optimized options, and calculating hourly costs and data transfer.

Explore Amazon EC2 instance types and purchase options. Compare on-demand, reserved, spot, dedicated hosts, and savings plans to optimize compute costs for your workloads and compliance needs.

Deploy web applications with Elastic Beanstalk by using a fully managed platform as a service that lets developers upload their code, automatically detects the runtime, and handles infrastructure and scaling.