AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Study for SAA-C03 with VISI Academy: modules generated from our notes, plus progress tracking and saved notes.

Recommended experience

Basic networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing)
Comfort reading diagrams and architecture tradeoffs
Hands-on AWS console exposure is helpful but not required

Modules

Course-style structure: categories, modules, and units. Mark units complete to track your progress.

Overview

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Exam logistics, domain weightings, global infrastructure, and decision frameworks — all in one page.

10 units

Open start here

Domain 1 · 30%

Design Secure Architectures

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Identity & Governance

Users — mapped to a physical person. Has credentials for Console (password) or programmatic access (access keys).

6 units

Open module

Security Controls

Security Groups** — stateful, instance-level. Allow rules only (no deny). Return traffic automatically allowed. All rules evaluated before decision.

4 units

Open module

Monitoring, Audit & Governance

Metrics — CPU, Network, Disk for EC2 by default (high-level). RAM is NOT collected by default — use CloudWatch Agent.

3 units

Open module

Domain 2 · 26%

Design Resilient Architectures

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Resilience & DR

Multi-AZ** — redundancy within a region. RDS Multi-AZ: Used for failover uses synchronous replication to standby. Automatic failover via DNS. Not for read scaling.

4 units

Open module

Scaling & Decoupling

Load Balancer · Layer · Protocol · Use Case

4 units

Open module

Compute Platforms

Amazon ECR** — managed Docker registry. Backed by S3. IAM controls access. Supports vulnerability scanning.

3 units

Open module

Reference Architectures & Migration

Route 53 → ALB (public subnet) → EC2 ASG (private subnet) → RDS Multi-AZ + ElastiCache (data subnet). ELB sticky sessions or ElastiCache for session data. ElastiCache for DB cachin

4 units

Open module

Domain 3 · 24%