AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
An exam-aligned certification program that trains you to design secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized solutions on AWS. Built around the official SAA-C03 exam blueprint with hands-on labs, real-world scenarios, and full mock exams to make you job-ready and certification-ready.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) program is an instructor-led certification course that prepares you to design and deploy well-architected solutions on Amazon Web Services. Every module is mapped directly to the official SAA-C03 exam guide so that what you learn is exactly what the exam tests.
You will work through the four official exam domains — designing secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures — using hands-on labs, real-world architectural scenarios, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The course closes with full-length mock exams and a capstone architecture project so you walk into the exam with confidence.
On completion you will be ready to sit the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam and to take on cloud architect and cloud engineering roles.
Exam at a Glance
- Exam code: SAA-C03 | Level: Associate
- Format: 65 questions (50 scored + 15 unscored); multiple choice & multiple response
- Duration: 130 minutes | Passing score: 720 / 1000
- Recertification: every 3 years
- Delivery: Pearson VUE test center or online proctored
- Recommended: ~1 year of hands-on experience with AWS
Exam Domains & Weightings
- Domain 1 — Design Secure Architectures — 30%
- Domain 2 — Design Resilient Architectures — 26%
- Domain 3 — Design High-Performing Architectures — 24%
- Domain 4 — Design Cost-Optimized Architectures — 20%
Course Highlights
- 100% aligned to the official SAA-C03 exam blueprint
- Hands-on labs across all four exam domains
- Real-world architecture scenarios and case studies
- AWS Well-Architected Framework deep dive
- Full-length mock exams with explanations
- Capstone architecture project
Learning Outcomes
- Design secure access and workloads using IAM, Organizations, and encryption
- Build resilient, highly available, and fault-tolerant architectures
- Architect high-performing compute, storage, database, and networking
- Optimize AWS solutions for cost across every layer
- Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework to real workloads
- Pass the SAA-C03 exam with confidence
Job Opportunities
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- AWS Cloud Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Cloud Security Engineer
- Cloud Operations Specialist
Material Includes
- Class recordings
- Lab guides
- Mock exams
- Certificate
Who Can Join
- IT Professionals
- Developers & SysAdmins
- Cloud enthusiasts & Students
Estimated Time: 14–15 Hours
1.1 Design secure access to AWS resources- IAM users, groups, roles, policies; least-privilege authorization models
- MFA and root-user best practices; AWS STS, role switching, cross-account access
- Multi-account security: AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Federated access & IAM Identity Center; resource policies; directory federation
- AWS global infrastructure (Regions, AZs) and the shared responsibility model
- Secure VPC design: security groups, NACLs, route tables, NAT gateways
- Public/private subnet segmentation; secure application access
- App config & credential security (AWS Secrets Manager); AWS service endpoints
- Security services: Amazon Cognito, GuardDuty, Macie, AWS Shield, AWS WAF
- Mitigating external threats (DDoS, SQL injection); securing VPN & Direct Connect
- Encryption at rest (AWS KMS) and in transit (ACM/TLS); key policies & rotation
- Certificate renewal; data backups & replication
- Data access, lifecycle, retention, classification, governance & compliance
- Build cross-account access with IAM roles, SCPs, and MFA
- Encrypt data with KMS and provision TLS certificates with ACM
Estimated Time: 12–13 Hours
2.1 Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures- Multi-tier, microservice, event-driven architectures; horizontal vs vertical scaling
- Loose coupling: Amazon SQS, SNS/pub-sub, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions
- API management (Amazon API Gateway); caching strategies; CDN/edge accelerators
- Containers (Amazon ECS, EKS, Fargate) and serverless (AWS Lambda, Fargate)
- Storage types (object/file/block); read replicas; purpose-built AWS services
- Multi-AZ / multi-Region HA; Amazon Route 53; load balancing (ALB)
- Disaster recovery strategies: backup & restore, pilot light, warm standby, active-active failover; RTO/RPO
- Mitigating single points of failure; immutable infrastructure; failover strategies
- Durability & availability of data; service quotas & throttling; AWS X-Ray visibility
- Decouple a workload with SQS, SNS, and EventBridge
- Deploy a Multi-AZ, auto-scaled architecture behind an ALB with Route 53 failover
Estimated Time: 11–12 Hours
3.1 High-performing & scalable storage- Amazon S3, EFS, EBS; hybrid storage; object/file/block characteristics; scaling for future needs
- EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS Auto Scaling; Lambda, Fargate, ECS/EKS; AWS Batch, EMR
- Right-sizing instance types & Lambda memory; decoupling for independent scaling
- Amazon Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB; read replicas; Amazon ElastiCache caching
- Engine selection (MySQL vs PostgreSQL); proxies; relational vs non-relational vs in-memory
- Capacity planning & Provisioned IOPS
- Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator; subnet tiers, routing, IP addressing; ALB
- AWS VPN, Direct Connect, PrivateLink; global/hybrid/ multi-tier topologies
- Amazon Kinesis streaming; AWS Glue transformation; AWS DataSync, Storage Gateway transfer
- Amazon Athena, AWS Lake Formation, QuickSight; building/securing data lakes; format conversion (CSV→Parquet)
- Accelerate delivery with CloudFront and Global Accelerator
- Cache a database with ElastiCache and add read replicas
Estimated Time: 9–10 Hours
4.1 Cost-optimized storage- S3/EFS/EBS/FSx selection; S3 lifecycle & storage tiering; HDD vs SSD; backup/archival
- Lowest-cost data transfer; cost tools (Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Cost & Usage Report), cost allocation tags
- Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans; ALB vs NLB vs GWLB
- Horizontal vs vertical scaling, EC2 hibernation; Lambda vs EC2 vs Fargate
- Right instance family/size; AWS Outposts hybrid
- DynamoDB vs RDS, serverless; read replicas & caching; backup/retention & snapshot frequency
- Engine selection; schema/data migration; columnar/time-series formats
- NAT gateway cost strategies (shared vs per-AZ); Direct Connect vs VPN vs internet
- Minimizing transfer costs (VPC endpoints, Global Accelerator, peering, AWS Transit Gateway); CDN/edge caching; throttling
- Model savings with Spot, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans
- Cut transfer costs using VPC endpoints and S3 lifecycle tiering
Estimated Time: 4–5 Hours
Learning Objectives:- Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework across all pillars
- Master SAA-C03 question patterns and time management
- AWS Well-Architected Framework review
- Domain-by-domain exam strategy
- Scenario analysis and elimination techniques
- Capstone: design a secure, resilient, cost-optimized architecture
- Full-length timed mock exams with detailed review
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