AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - EXAM REVIEW

Deliver a crash review for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam with quick review videos, scenarios, and comparisons to remember 40 key services.

Explore cloud fundamentals, including elasticity on demand, operational expenditure, pay-as-you-go economics, and global deployment, then learn how regions and availability zones boost high availability and low latency.

Discover the key AWS compute services, from EC2 and elastic load balancing to Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Fargate, and Lambda, highlighting serverless options and container orchestration.

Launch and manage EC2 elastic compute cloud virtual servers, selecting AMIs and instance types, configuring IPs, security groups, and user data for automated bootstrapping.

Explore Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, and ECR to deploy and scale web applications with web server and worker tiers, deployment strategies, and canary or blue-green updates.

Explore how AWS Lambda enables serverless compute with automatic scaling and pay-per-use pricing, including a free tier, while you focus on code and manage permissions, CloudWatch logs, and X-Ray tracing.

Master Amazon S3, the versatile object storage with buckets, keys, prefixes, and diverse storage classes, plus lifecycle, versioning, replication, and event notifications for cost optimization and security.

Explore S3 security, access controls, and cost management with bucket policies, ACLs, pre-signed URLs, access points, and compare with Glacier retrieval, lifecycle, and performance options.

Define a VPC and its CIDR blocks, and distinguish public and private subnets. Learn how routing tables, internet gateways, and NAT devices control inter-subnet and internet access.

Survey AWS databases across relational, OLAP, document, graph, and in-memory types, with RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Neptune, and ElastiCache, and compare consistency, availability, and durability tradeoffs.

Operate Amazon RDS for oltp workloads with multi-az failover. Leverage read replicas for scaling, and explore Aurora for high performance, global database option, and serverless or multi-master deployments.

Explore Amazon Redshift, a petabyte-scale, columnar, MPP data warehouse designed for OLAP and BI, with scalable clusters, robust data loading options, and Spectrum for querying S3 data.

Explore AWS storage options, focusing on storage via EBS and instance store, including durability, backups, encryption, and snapshots; cover EBS types and file and storage with EFS and Storage Gateway.

Understand streaming data concepts, compare S3 notifications and DynamoDB streams, and learn Kinesis data streams, firehose, and analytics, including shards, partition keys, ordering, and resharding via split and merge.

Learn how CloudFront delivers content globally via edge locations and origin caching, using signed URLs/cookies and origin access identities for secure access, plus Route 53 DNS routing with alias records.

Explore DevOps fundamentals for AWS solutions architects, including continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code with CloudFormation and SAM, and deployment strategies like blue-green and canary.

Discover how AWS API gateway, the front door to your APIs, supports REST API, HTTP API, and WebSocket API types, with caching, throttling, canary releases, and secure, serverless Lambda exposure.

Explore identity federation and amazon cognito for authentication and authorization, including user pools, identity pools, social sign-in, openid connect, saml, and api gateway integration.

Master event source mapping for Lambda with DynamoDB, Kinesis, and SQS, explore AppSync for GraphQL data syncing, and review Step Functions and SWF for serverless workflows.

Explore cross-origin resource sharing and API security, including origins, methods, and headers, then cover AWS configuration management with environments, parameter store, secrets manager, and caching with Redis, Memcached, and DAX.

Discover moving data between on premises and AWS with snowball, snowmobile, and data transfer options like S3 transfer acceleration, Datasync, and migration services.

Explore the AWS shared responsibility model, where AWS secures the infrastructure and you manage the guest OS, applications, security groups, and data security at rest and in transit.

Celebrate your journey toward becoming an AWS certified solutions architect associate, prepare well for the exam, and share your success story and course reviews on LinkedIn and Q and A.