Concretely, here’s what we’ll learn to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam:
The AWS Fundamentals: IAM, EC2, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, EBS, EFS, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront
The AWS CLI: CLI setup, usage on EC2, best practices, SDK, advanced usage
In-Depth Database comparison: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, QLDB, Timestream
Analytics services comparison: Athena, EMR, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lake Formation, Kinesis Data Analytics, MSK, QuickSight, Glue
Machine Learning services: Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate, Lex, Comprehend, SageMaker, Forecast, Kendra, Personalize, Textract.
Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, Config
AWS Integration & Messaging: SQS, SNS, Kinesis Amazon MQ
AWS Serverless: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions
AWS Containers Services: ECS, ECR,
AWS Security best practices: KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, IAM Policies, Cognito, Shield, WAF, Firewall Manager, SSO, Certificate Manager, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie
VPC & Networking in depth