AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: Complete Course

Master hands-on IAM by creating users and groups, attaching policies, and managing credentials, with a focus on MFA and password policies for secure AWS access.

Launch an Amazon EC2 instance, explore storage, IAM roles and users, IP addresses and elastic IP, and learn region, security groups, and key pair basics for hands-on cloud experimentation.

Learn how to securely access an EC2 Linux instance using instance connect, verify readiness via status checks, locate public DNS or IP, and manage security group rules for port 22.

Learn hands-on installation of git, docker, and apache on an Amazon Linux 2 instance, configuring sudo, docker group, and using user data to automate setup.

Explore the EC2 instance lifecycle and state transitions from pending to running, rebooting, stopping, stopped, stop hibernate, and terminated, with billing and memory persistence implications.

Explore aws ec2 instance types, their naming and family categories, and learn to choose general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, or storage-optimized types by cpu, memory, pricing, and region availability.

Elastic network interfaces in a VPC act as portable network cards with private and elastic IP addresses and security groups; attach or detach them to instances in an availability zone.

Learn how to create independent Amazon EBS volumes, attach them to EC2 instances in the same availability zone, format and mount them, and preserve data across terminations and reattachments.

Learn to create and manage S3 buckets and objects, including name rules, region selection, uploading files, and understanding that folders are not real and access via object URLs.

Explore Amazon EC2 instance metadata, accessed inside the instance at 169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data, with categories like hostname and security groups, and how user data configures the instance for automation.

Learn how S3 MFA delete protects versioned buckets by requiring a six-digit code from an approved device to delete objects. Understand who can enable it and its PCI DSS relevance.

Learn how Amazon S3 automatically scales to high request rates, enabling thousands of transactions per second, with techniques like parallel connections, range requests, and transfer acceleration to optimize performance.

Compare Athena and Macie: Athena is serverless, pay-per-scan data analysis integrated with Redshift or EMR, while Macie uses ML to detect and protect sensitive data in S3.

Explore Amazon Glue, a serverless data integration service that extracts, transforms, and loads data, catalogs datasets with crawlers and classifiers, and enables visual or code-based ETL workflows for analytics.

Take a hands-on walkthrough of creating an AWS storage gateway, choosing between Amazon S3 file gateway, FSx file gateway, volume gateway, or tape gateway, and activating it.

Configure Route 53 health checks to monitor web applications, servers, and resources, using an endpoint or IP, and learn default 30-second checks and CloudWatch alarm options.

Learn to configure geolocation routing policies to steer traffic by end-user location using IP-mapped continents and countries, with health checks, Asia and Europe examples.

Explore geo proximity routing with a bias value to shift traffic toward a region, using Route 53 traffic flow to expand or shrink the geographic area feeding a resource.