Amazon Web Services
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
The most popular AWS certification, validating the ability to design secure, resilient, and cost-optimized architectures on AWS. A standard credential for cloud engineers, solutions architects, and developers moving into cloud roles.
What's on the exam
SAA-C03 Exam Guide
Design Secure Architectures
30%Secure access to AWS resources (IAM, federation) · Secure workloads and applications · Data security controls (encryption, KMS) · Network security (VPC, security groups, NACLs)
Design Resilient Architectures
26%Scalable and loosely coupled architectures · Highly available and fault-tolerant architectures · Disaster recovery strategies (RTO/RPO) · Decoupling with SQS, SNS, and EventBridge · Multi-AZ and multi-Region design
Design High-Performing Architectures
24%High-performing storage solutions · Elastic compute solutions · Database selection and performance · Scalable network architectures · Caching and data ingestion patterns
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20%Cost-effective storage (S3 tiers, lifecycle policies) · Cost-effective compute (Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans) · Cost-effective database solutions · Cost-effective network architectures · Cost monitoring and governance tools
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