Curriculum
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures
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Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures
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Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures
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Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
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Text lesson
Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
- API creation and management (Amazon API Gateway, REST API)
- AWS managed services with appropriate use cases (AWS
- Transfer Family, Amazon Simple Queue Service [Amazon SQS], Secrets Manager)
- Caching strategies
- Design principles for microservices (stateless workloads compared with stateful workloads)
- Event-driven architectures
- Horizontal scaling and vertical scaling
- How to appropriately use edge accelerators (content delivery network [CDN])
- How to migrate applications into containers
- Load balancing concepts (Application Load Balancer)
- Multi-tier architectures
- Queuing and messaging concepts (publish/subscribe)
- Serverless technologies and patterns (AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda)
- Storage types with associated characteristics (object, file, block)
- The orchestration of containers (Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS])
- When to use read replicas
- Workflow orchestration (AWS Step Functions)