AWS in bullet points

September 14, 2025 · View on GitHub

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  • This repo contains study notes for different AWS exams.
  • The notes are comprehensive and written with goal of covering all exam areas.
  • Currently maintained for SAA-C03 (I passed with 956/1000 with these notes).
  • Good luck & enjoy studying! ☕

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    📝Common exam area
    🤗Fact / trivia (most likely unrelated to the exam)

Content

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

  1. AWS Management
    1. Introduction
    2. AWS Economics
      1. Pricing (Pricing Calculator, Data Transfer, Savings Plans)
      2. Cost Optimizations (Compute Explorer, Instance Scheduler)
      3. Cost Monitoring & Management (Budget, Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Report, Billing and Cost Management)
    3. Account Management (Account, Organizations, Control Tower)
    4. Resource Management (Resource Groups, Resource Access Manager, License Manager, Service Catalog)
    5. Interacting with services (Console, CLI, SDKs)
  2. Security
    1. IAM
    2. Identity federation (STS, SAML, Cognito, SSO, Directory Service)
    3. Encryption in AWS (SSM, KMS, Secrets Manager)
  3. Monitoring
    1. CloudWatch, Managed Grafana
    2. Security Monitoring (CloudTrail, AWS Config, Trusted Advisor, Inspector, Artifact, Detective, Audit Manager)
  4. Networking
    1. IP Addresses (Elastic IP)
    2. VPC
    3. Subnets
    4. Network Security
    5. Hybrid connections (Site to site VPN, Client VPN, Direct Connect, Outposts)
    6. Edge
  5. Compute
    1. EC2
      1. EC2 Overview
      2. EC2 Provisioning (Launch Types, Capacity Management, Tenancy, User Data, Instance Types, Fleet)
      3. EC2 Networking
      4. EC2 Administration
      5. EC2 AMIs
      6. EC2 Storage (EBS, EFS, Instance Store)
    2. Elastic Beanstalk
    3. Containers (ECS, EKS, Managed Service for Prometheus)
    4. Lambda
  6. Data Services
    1. S3
      1. S3 Overview
      2. S3 Security (Macie)
      3. S3 Integrated Services (Snowball, Athena, Storage Gateway, Object Lambda, Transfer)
    2. Databases
      1. Overview
      2. Amazon RDS
      3. Amazon Aurora
      4. DynamoDB
      5. ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached)
      6. Other databases (DocumentDB, Neptune)
    3. Analytics
      1. Data Warehousing (Redshift)
      2. Data Streaming (Kinesis, Data Firehose, Managed Kafka/Flink)
      3. Data Querying (QuickSight, OpenSearch, RedShift Spectrum, Athena)
      4. Data Processing (EMR, Glue, Batch, LakeFormation)
      5. Data Orchestration (Data Pipeline, AppFlow)
  7. Resiliency
    1. Resiliency and High Availability (Health Dashboard)
    2. Load Balancers (ELB, CLB, NLB, ALB, GWLB)
    3. Scalability (Auto Scaling, ASG)
    4. Disaster Recovery (AWS Backup)
    5. Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, SAM)
    6. Deployment Automation (Systems Manager, OpsWorks, Proton)
  8. Integrations
    1. Queues
      1. Queues - Overview
      2. SQS
      3. Amazon MQ
    2. Event Broadcasting (SNS, EventBridge)
    3. API Integrations (API Gateway, AppSync)
    4. Workflows (SWF & Step Functions)
  9. Migrations (Migration Hub, Migration Evaluator, Application Discovery Service, Database Migration Service, Application Migration Service, App2Container, DataSync)
  10. Well-Architected Framework (Well-Architected Tool)
  11. AI Services
  12. Other services
  13. Exam Readiness

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