Curriculum
Course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
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Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

  • AWS global infrastructure (Availability Zones, AWS Regions, Amazon Route 53)
  • AWS managed services with appropriate use cases (Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Polly)
  • Basic networking concepts (route tables)
  • Disaster recovery (DR) strategies (backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, active-active failover, recovery point objective [RPO], recovery time objective [RTO])
  • Distributed design patterns
  • Failover strategies
  • Immutable infrastructure
  • Load balancing concepts (Application Load Balancer)
  • Proxy concepts (Amazon RDS Proxy)
  • Service quotas and throttling (how to configure the service quotas for a workload in a standby environment)
  • Storage options and characteristics (durability, replication)
  • Workload visibility (AWS X-Ray)