Most Valuable Aws Solutions Architect Associate Saa-C03

Earn 150K+ in cloud — get AWS certified with 30h+ content, 10 full exams, with 1000+ practice questions.

What you'll learn

Increase your earning potential by an average of $20,000+ annually by becoming a certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

Master the key AWS services and architectural best practices to design scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Confidently pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 exam with over 1000 practice questions and 2 full practice tests.

Increase your earning potential by an average of $20,000+ annually by becoming a certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

Requirements

No prior AWS experience is required — this course is designed for beginners and intermediate learners alike.

Basic understanding of IT concepts like networking, servers, or databases will be helpful but not mandatory.

Access to an AWS free tier account is recommended to practice hands-on labs (optional but encouraged).

A willingness to learn and commit time to complete 30+ hours of training and practice questions.

Description

Want to break into cloud computing and earn $150K+ a year? This AWS Solutions Architect Associate course is your fastest and most complete path to certification.Whether you're starting from scratch or building on IT experience, this course will teach you everything you need to know to pass the SAA-C03 exam and succeed in real-world AWS roles.You'll master the key AWS services, cloud architecture principles, and deployment patterns with a perfect balance of theory and hands-on practice.Inside the course, you'll get: 30+ hours of clear, engaging video lectures that explain AWS concepts step-by-step Real hands-on labs with practical exercises so you build true, job-ready skills Coverage of 30+ core AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, ASG, Lambda, IAM, RDS, and more 10 full practice exams (2 hours each) that simulate the real AWS exam experience a total of 1000+ practice questions to boost your confidenceUnlike other courses that sell the theory and exam prep separately, ITO Courses gives you everything in one powerful package — the best-value AWS Solutions Architect course on the Udemy marketplace.You won’t just memorize exam answers. You’ll actually understand the AWS platform and gain the confidence to use it.Whether you're aiming for your first cloud job or preparing for a major career shift, this course gives you the tools, knowledge, and experience to succeed.Enroll now and take your first step toward becoming an AWS-certified Solutions Architect — and start earning what you're worth.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 YOUR FREE 10 EXAMS

Lecture 2 Code + Material

Lecture 3 Navigating the AWS Console and Exploring Core Services

Lecture 4 Account Creation

Section 2: Managing Access with IAM and the AWS CLI

Lecture 5 Hands-On Lab: Creating IAM Users and Groups

Lecture 6 IAM Basics: Understanding Users, Groups, and Policies

Lecture 7 Defining Permissions with IAM Policies

Lecture 8 Hands-On Lab: IAM Policies

Lecture 9 Securing AWS with IAM MFA

Lecture 10 Hands-On Lab: IAM MFA

Lecture 11 Accessing AWS: Keys, CLI, and SDK Explained

Lecture 12 Install CLI on MacOS : READ-ME tutorial

Lecture 13 Install CLI on Windows : READ-ME tutorial

Lecture 14 Install AWS CLI on Linux

Lecture 15 Hands-On Lab: AWS CLI

Lecture 16 Hands-On Lab: CloudShell

Lecture 17 IAM Roles: Granting Permissions to AWS Services

Lecture 18 Hands-On Lab: IAM Roles

Lecture 19 IAM Security Tools

Lecture 20 Hands-On Lab: IAM Security Tools

Lecture 21 IAM Essentials: Key Takeaways and Best Practices

Lecture 22 Organizations

Lecture 23 Hands-On Lab: Organizations

Lecture 24 IAM -Advanced Policies

Lecture 25 IAM - Resource-based Policies vs IAM Roles

Lecture 26 IAM - Policy Evaluation Logic

Lecture 27 AWS IAM Identity Center

Lecture 28 AWS Directory Services

Lecture 29 Hands-On Lab: AWS Directory Services

Lecture 30 AWS Control Tower

Section 3: AWS S3 Buckets

Lecture 31 What are S3 Buckets ?

Lecture 32 Hands-On Lab: S3 Buckets

Lecture 33 S3 Security - Policies and Access

Lecture 34 Hands-On Lab: S3 Security - Policies and Access

Lecture 35 Static Website with Amazon S3 Bucket

Lecture 36 Hands-On Lab: Our static website with S3

Lecture 37 Versioning in Amazon S3

Lecture 38 Hands-On Lab: Versioning

Lecture 39 Replication in Amazon S3

Lecture 40 Hands-On Lab: Replication

Lecture 41 S3 Storage classes

Lecture 42 Hands-On Lab: S3 Storage classes

Lecture 43 Lifecycle Rules

Lecture 44 Hands-On Lab: Lifecycle Rules

Lecture 45 S3 Requester Pays

Lecture 46 S3 Event Notifications

Lecture 47 Hands-On Lab: S3 Event Notifications

Lecture 48 S3 & Batch Operations

Lecture 49 S3 Performance

Lecture 50 S3 Encryption

Lecture 51 Hands-On Lab: S3 Encryption

Lecture 52 S3 Default Encryption

Lecture 53 S3 Cross Origin Ressource Sharing (C0RS)

Lecture 54 Hands-On Lab: S3 CORS

Lecture 55 S3 MFA Delete

Lecture 56 Hands-On Lab: MFA Delete

Lecture 57 S3 Access Logs

Lecture 58 Hands-On Lab: S3 Access Logs

Lecture 59 S3 Pre-signed URL

Lecture 60 Hands-On Lab: S3 Pre-signed URL

Lecture 61 Glacier Vault Lock & S3 Object Lock

Lecture 62 S3 Access Point

Lecture 63 S3 Object Lambda

Section 4: AWS EC2

Lecture 64 Hands-On Lab: AWS Budget Configuration

Lecture 65 EC2 Basics

Lecture 66 Hands-OnLab: Create an EC2 Instance with EC2 User Data to have a Website

Lecture 67 EC2 Instance Type Overview

Lecture 68 Overview of Security Groups and Common Ports

Lecture 69 Hands-On Lab: Security Groups

Lecture 70 SSH

Lecture 71 SSH on LInux or Mac

Lecture 72 EC2 Instance Connect Tutorial

Lecture 73 Hands-On Lab: EC2 Instance Roles

Lecture 74 Purshasing EC2 Instance

Lecture 75 Understanding AWS IP Address Costs

Lecture 76 Using Spot Instances and Spot Fleets

Lecture 77 Hands-On Lab: EC2 Instances Launch Types

Lecture 78 Private vs Public vs Elastic IP

Lecture 79 Hands-On Lab: Private vs Public vs Elastic IP

Lecture 80 EC2 Placement Groups

Lecture 81 Hands-On Lab: EC2 Placement Groups

Lecture 82 Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)

Lecture 83 Hands-On Lab: Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)

Lecture 84 EC2 Hibernate - Overview

Lecture 85 Hands-On Lab: EC2 Hibernate

Lecture 86 EBS Volumes aka Elastic Block Store Volumes

Lecture 87 Hands-On Lab: EBS Volumes

Lecture 88 EBS Snapshot

Lecture 89 Hands-On Lab: EBS Snapshot

Lecture 90 Amazon Machine Image (AMIs)

Lecture 91 Hands-On Lab: AMIs

Lecture 92 EBS Volume types Overview

Lecture 93 EC2 Instance Store Overview

Lecture 94 EBS Multi-Attach

Lecture 95 Hands-On Lab: EBS Encryption

Lecture 96 Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Lecture 97 Hands-On Lab: Amazon EFS

Lecture 98 EBS vs EFS

Lecture 99 EC2 Cleaning for free tier !

Lecture 100 SSH on Windows - FULL READ ME

Section 5: Scaling and Availability Made Easy with AWS ELB and ASG

Lecture 101 Definitions : Availability and Scalability

Lecture 102 Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

Lecture 103 Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Lecture 104 Hands-On Lab: ALB Full Overview

Lecture 105 Amazon Newtork Load Balancer (NLB)

Lecture 106 Hands-On Lab: NLB

Lecture 107 Amazon Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)

Lecture 108 ELB - Sticky Sessions

Lecture 109 ELB - Cross Zone Load Balancing

Lecture 110 ELB & SSL Certificates

Lecture 111 Hands-On Lab: ELB & SSL Certificates

Lecture 112 ELB -Connection Draining

Lecture 113 Amazon Auto Scaling Group (ASG)

Lecture 114 Hands-On Lab: ASG

Lecture 115 ASG - Scaling Policies

Lecture 116 Hands-On Lab: ASG -Scaling Policies

Section 6: Getting Started with AWS Managed Databases

Lecture 117 Amazon RDS basics

Lecture 118 RDS Read Replicas or Multi AZ ?

Lecture 119 Hands-On Lab: Amazon RDS

Lecture 120 RDS Custom for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server

Lecture 121 Amazon Aurora

Lecture 122 Hands-On Lab: Amazon Aurora

Lecture 123 Advanced Amazon Aurora: Deep Dive & Best Practices

Lecture 124 RDS and Aurora: Backup Strategies and Monitoring Techniques

Lecture 125 Amazon RDS Security

Lecture 126 Amazon RDS Proxy

Lecture 127 Amazon ElasticCache

Lecture 128 Hands-On Lab: ElastiCache

Lecture 129 ElastiCache for Solution Architects

Section 7: Advanced AWS Storage Features

Lecture 130 AWS Snow Family

Lecture 131 Hands-On Lab: AWS Snow Family

Lecture 132 Architecture: Snowball into Glacier

Lecture 133 AWS FSx

Lecture 134 Hands-On Lab: AWS FSx

Lecture 135 Storage Gateway

Lecture 136 Hands-On Lab: Storage Gateway

Lecture 137 AWS Transfer Family

Lecture 138 DataSync

Lecture 139 AWS Storage Options Compared

Section 8: Understanding Serverless Architecture from a Solutions Design Viewpoint

Lecture 140 What do we call "Serverless" ?

Lecture 141 AWS Lambda

Lecture 142 Hands-On Lab: AWS Lambda

Lecture 143 AWS Lambda Limitations

Lecture 144 AWS Lambda Concurrency

Lecture 145 Hands-On Lab: AWS Lambda Concurrency

Lecture 146 AWS Lambda SnapStart

Lecture 147 Lambda@Edge & CloudFront Functions

Lecture 148 AWS Lambda in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Lecture 149 AWS RDS - Invoking Lambda & Event Notifications

Lecture 150 AWS DynamoDB

Lecture 151 Hands-On Lab: AWS DynamoDB

Lecture 152 AWS DynamoDB - Advanced features

Lecture 153 AWS API Gateway

Lecture 154 Hands-On Lab: API Gateway

Lecture 155 Step function

Lecture 156 AWS Cognito

Section 9: AWS Route 53

Lecture 157 DNS: Definition and core concepts

Lecture 158 AWS Route 53

Lecture 159 Hands-On Lab: How to register a domain via Route 53 ?

Lecture 160 Hands-On Lab: Our first records

Lecture 161 Hands-On Lab: EC2 SETUP

Lecture 162 Hands-On Lab: TTL Time To Live

Lecture 163 CNAME vs Alias

Lecture 164 Hands-On Lab: Routing Policy - Simple

Lecture 165 Hands-On Lab: Routing Policy - Weighted

Lecture 166 Hands-On Lab: Routing Policy - Latency

Lecture 167 Route 53 - Health Checks

Lecture 168 Hands-On Lab: . Route 53 - Health Checks

Lecture 169 Routing Policy - Failover

Lecture 170 Routing Policy - Geolocation

Lecture 171 Routing Policy - IP-based

Lecture 172 Routing Policy - Multi Value

Lecture 173 Routing Policy - Geoproximity

Lecture 174 3rd Party Domains & Route 53

Lecture 175 Cleanup

Section 10: AWS BeanStalk

Lecture 176 instantiating applications fast

Lecture 177 AWS BeanStalk

Lecture 178 Hands-On Lab: AWS BeanStalk

Section 11: CloudFront & Global Accelerator in Action

Lecture 179 AWS CloudFront

Lecture 180 Hands-On Lab: AWS CloudFront

Lecture 181 CloudFront - ALB/EC2 as an Origin

Lecture 182 CloudFront - Price Classes

Lecture 183 CloudFront - Geo Restriction

Lecture 184 CloudFront - Cache Invalidation

Lecture 185 AWS Global Accelerator

Lecture 186 Hands-On Lab: AWS Global Accelerator

Section 12: Building Loosely Coupled Applications with SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and ActiveMQ

Lecture 187 What is Messaging ?

Lecture 188 AWS SQS - Simple Queues Service

Lecture 189 Hands-On Lab: SQS

Lecture 190 SQS - long Polling

Lecture 191 SQS - FIFO Queues

Lecture 192 SQS - Message Visibility Timeout

Lecture 193 SQS & ASG

Lecture 194 AWS SNS : Simple Notification Service

Lecture 195 SNS x SQS -Fan out Pattern

Lecture 196 Hands-On Lab: AWS SNS

Lecture 197 AWS Kinesis

Lecture 198 Hands-On Lab: AWS Kinesis

Lecture 199 AWS FireHose

Lecture 200 Hands-On Lab: AWS FireHose

Lecture 201 SNS vs SQS vs Kinesis

Lecture 202 AWS MQ

Section 13: Running Containers on AWS with ECS, Fargate, ECR & EKS

Lecture 203 What is Docker ?

Lecture 204 AWS ECS

Lecture 205 Hands-On Lab: ECS Cluster

Lecture 206 Hands-On Lab: ECS Service

Lecture 207 AWS ECS -Auto Scaling

Lecture 208 AWS ECS - Solution Architectures

Lecture 209 Hands-On Lab: Cleaning !

Lecture 210 AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Lecture 211 AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Lecture 212 Hands-On Lab: EKS

Lecture 213 AWS App Runner

Lecture 214 AWS App2Container

Section 14: Exploring Serverless Solution Architectures

Lecture 215 Discussion 1 : Serverless website - mylife.com

Lecture 216 Discussion 2: Mybucketlist app

Lecture 217 Discussion 3 : MicroServices Architecture

Lecture 218 Discussion 4 : Software updates distributions

Lecture 219 Discussion 5: Event Processing in AWS

Lecture 220 Discussion 6: Caching Strategies in AWS

Lecture 221 Blocking IP Addresses in AWS

Lecture 222 High Performance Computing (HPC) on AWS

Section 15: Databases on AWS: A Comprehensive Guide

Lecture 223 Selecting the database that matches your need

Lecture 224 AWS S3

Lecture 225 AWS Aurora

Lecture 226 AWS ElastiCache

Lecture 227 AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

Lecture 228 DynamoDB

Lecture 229 DocumentDB

Lecture 230 Neptune

Lecture 231 Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Lecture 232 AWS Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

Lecture 233 AWS Timestream

Section 16: Data & Analytics

Lecture 234 AWS Athena

Lecture 235 Hands-On Lab: AWS Athena

Lecture 236 AWS RedShift

Lecture 237 OpenSearch

Lecture 238 Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

Lecture 239 AWS Glue

Lecture 240 QuickSight

Lecture 241 AWS Lake Formation

Lecture 242 AWS Managed Service for Apache Flink

Lecture 243 MSK - Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Lecture 244 Big Data Ingestion Pipeline

Section 17: Deploying Machine Learning Models on AWS

Lecture 245 Rekognition

Lecture 246 Transcribe

Lecture 247 Translate

Lecture 248 Lex

Lecture 249 Polly

Lecture 250 Comprehend

Lecture 251 SageMaker

Lecture 252 Kendra

Lecture 253 Personalize

Lecture 254 Textract

Lecture 255 ML Summary

Section 18: AWS Operational Monitoring and Compliance with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Confi

Lecture 256 CloudWatch Metrics

Lecture 257 CloudWatch Logs

Lecture 258 Hands-On Lab: CloudWatch Logs

Lecture 259 Hands-On Lab: Live Tail

Lecture 260 CloudWatch Logs Agent & CloudWatch Unified Agent

Lecture 261 CloudWatch Alarms

Lecture 262 Hands-On Lab: CloudWatch Alarms

Lecture 263 EventBridge

Lecture 264 Hands-On Lab: EventBridge

Lecture 265 CloudWatch Insights and Operational Visibility

Lecture 266 CloudTrail

Lecture 267 Hands-On Lab: CloudTrail

Lecture 268 CloudTrail - EventBridge Integration

Lecture 269 AWS Config

Section 19: Securing AWS Resources with KMS, SSM, Shield, and WAF

Lecture 270 Encryption

Lecture 271 AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Lecture 272 Hands-On Lab: AWS KMS

Lecture 273 KMS Multi-Region Keys

Lecture 274 S3 Replication with Encryption

Lecture 275 Encrypted AMI Sharing Process

Lecture 276 AWS Systems Manager (SSM) - Parameter Store

Lecture 277 Hands-On Lab: SSM Parameter Store

Lecture 278 Hands-On Lab: SSM Parameter Store using lambda

Lecture 279 AWS Secrets Manager

Lecture 280 Hands-On Lab: AWS Secrets Manager

Lecture 281 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Lecture 282 AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Lecture 283 Shield - DDoS Protection

Lecture 284 Firewall Manager

Lecture 285 Hands-On Lab: WAF & Shield

Lecture 286 DDoS Protection Best Practices

Lecture 287 AWS GuardDuty

Lecture 288 AWS Inspector

Lecture 289 AWS Macie

Section 20: AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Lecture 290 Intro

Lecture 291 CIDR, Private vs Public IP

Lecture 292 Default VPC

Lecture 293 Custom VPC

Lecture 294 Hands-On Lab: VPC

Lecture 295 Subnets

Lecture 296 Hands-On Lab: Subnets

Lecture 297 Internet Gateways & Route Tables

Lecture 298 Hands-On Lab: Internet Gateways & Route Tables

Lecture 299 Bastion Hosts

Lecture 300 Hands-On Lab: Bastion Hosts

Lecture 301 NAT Instances

Lecture 302 Hands-On Lab: NAT Instances

Lecture 303 NAT Gateways

Lecture 304 Hands-On Lab: NAT Gateways

Lecture 305 Network Access Control List (NACL) & Security Groups

Lecture 306 Hands-On Lab: Network Access Control Lists

Lecture 307 VPC Peering

Lecture 308 Hands-On Lab: VPC Peering

Lecture 309 VPC Endpoints

Lecture 310 Hands-On Lab: VPC Endpoints

Lecture 311 VPC Flow Logs

Lecture 312 Hands-On Lab: VPC Flow Logs

Lecture 313 Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway

Lecture 314 Hands-On Lab: Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway

Lecture 315 Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway

Lecture 316 Hands-On Lab: Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway

Lecture 317 Transit Gateway

Lecture 318 VPC Traffic Mirroring

Lecture 319 IPv6 for Virtual Private Clouds

Lecture 320 Hands-On Lab: IPv6 Virtual Private Cloud

Lecture 321 Egress Only Internet Gateway

Lecture 322 Hands-On Lab: Egress Only Internet Gateway

Lecture 323 Cleaning time !

Lecture 324 VPC Summary

Lecture 325 Networking Costs in AWS

Lecture 326 VPC Peering

Lecture 327 AWS Network Firewall

Section 21: High Availability, Disaster Recovery & Cloud Migrations

Lecture 328 AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Lecture 329 Disaster Recovery within AWS

Lecture 330 Hands-On Lab: AWS DMS

Lecture 331 On-Premises Strategies

Lecture 332 AWS RDS x Aurora

Lecture 333 AWS Backup

Lecture 334 Hands-On Lab: AWS Backup

Lecture 335 AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

Lecture 336 Transferring Large Datasets into AWS

Lecture 337 VMware Cloud on AWS

Section 22: Overview of other AWS Services

Lecture 338 CloudFormation

Lecture 339 Hands-On Lab: CloudFormation

Lecture 340 CloudFormation - Service Role

Lecture 341 AWS Simple Email Service (SES)

Lecture 342 AWS Pinpoint

Lecture 343 AWS Session Manager (SSM)

Lecture 344 SSM Other Services

Lecture 345 AWS Cost Explorer

Lecture 346 AWS Outposts

Lecture 347 AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Lecture 348 AWS Batch

Lecture 349 AWS AppFlow

Section 23: AWS Blueprint – Whitepapers & Architecture References

Lecture 350 AWS Well-Architected Framework & Well-Architected Tool

Lecture 351 AWS Trusted Advisor

Lecture 352 Examples of Architecture - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Section 24: Preparing for the exam !

Lecture 353 Recommended whitepapers to study

Lecture 354 How will the Exam go ?

Lecture 355 Exam Tips - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Lecture 356 Exam signup

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