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AWS Solutions Architect Associate

A complete beginner-to-advanced path through the topics on the AWS Solutions Architect – Associate exam: global infrastructure and IAM, EC2 and the compute/storage options, VPC networking and databases, high availability, scaling and decoupling, and the security, cost, and Well-Architected practices that tie it together. Original content built to teach the exam domains from the ground up.

Beginner5 sections · 15 lessons · ~10h total · 60-question self-test

01

Foundations & IAM

3 lessonsTest yourself

01Global infrastructureRegions, Availability Zones, edge locations.25 min 02IAM: users, roles & policiesLeast privilege, roles over keys, evaluation.30 min 03Accounts, Organizations & billingMulti-account isolation, SCPs, consolidated billing.25 min

02

Compute & storage

3 lessonsTest yourself

01EC2: instances & pricingAMIs, instance types, On-Demand/Reserved/Spot.30 min 02Lambda, containers & PaaSServerless, Fargate, ECS/EKS, Beanstalk.30 min 03S3, EBS & EFSObject/block/file storage and S3 classes.30 min

03

Networking & databases

3 lessonsTest yourself

01VPC networkingSubnets, routing, NAT, security groups.35 min 02Route 53, CloudFront & ELBDNS routing, CDN, and load balancing.30 min 03RDS, Aurora & DynamoDBRelational vs NoSQL, replicas, caching.30 min

04

Resilience & scaling

3 lessonsTest yourself

01High availability & DRMulti-AZ, multi-Region, RTO/RPO strategies.30 min 02Auto Scaling & stateless designElastic, self-healing, horizontally-scaled tiers.30 min 03Decoupling: SQS, SNS & EventBridgeQueues, pub/sub, and event-driven design.30 min

05

Security, cost & Well-Architected

3 lessonsTest yourself

01Security best practicesKMS, TLS, WAF/Shield, secrets, detection.30 min 02Cost optimizationPricing models, right-sizing, tiering, visibility.25 min 03The Well-Architected FrameworkThe six pillars and how to apply them.25 min

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Final exam

Test yourself on everything

60 questions drawn from all 5 sections — every answer explained as you pick.

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