AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2025

Welcome! I’m here to help you prepare and PASS the NEWEST AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 exam [Course FULLY updated]

** Updates List **

[May 2023 Update]: Over 20 videos have been refreshed/added to keep up with the AWS UI changes and exam changes

[September 2022 Update – SAA-C03]: Over 80 videos have been updated to reflect the NEW SAA-C03 exam

[April 2022 Update]: Over 30 videos have been refreshed/added to keep up with the AWS UI changes and exam changes

[October 2021 Update]: Over 100 videos have been refreshed/added to keep up with the AWS UI changes and exam changes

[April 2021 Update]: Over 100 videos have been refreshed/added to keep up with the AWS UI changes and exam changes

[Dec 2020 Update]: The S3 section has been entirely re-recorded to accommodate for the AWS UI changes

[May 2020 Update]: 20+ videos have been updated to keep up with AWS UI changes.

[February 2020 Update – SAA-C02]: The course has been updated for the NEW 2020 exam version. Overall, 80 videos have been added or updated, and the course is now 22 hours long. Happy learning!

[July 2019 Update]: Few lectures refreshed, including AWS Budgets and EC2 placement groups.

Beginners welcome: no need to know anything about AWS!

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 certification is one of the most challenging exams. It’s great at assessing how well you understand not just AWS, but making sure you are making the best architectural decisions based on situations, which makes this certification incredibly valuable to have and pass. Rest assured, I’ve passed it myself with a score of 982 out of 1000. Yes, you read that right, I only made one mistake! Next, I want to help YOU pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification with flying colors.

This is going to be a long journey, but passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam will be worth it!

This AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course is different from the other ones you’ll find on Udemy. Dare I say, better (but you’ll judge!)

• We will spend over three hours discussing solution architecture on AWS in depth.
• It covers in-depth all the new topics on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 exam
• It’s packed with practical knowledge on how to use AWS inside and out as a solutions architect
• It teaches you how to prepare for the AWS exam AND how to prepare for the real world
• It’s a logical progression of topics, not a laundry list of random services
• It’s fast-paced and to the point
• It has professional subtitles
• All 800+ slides available as downloadable PDF

Concretely, here’s what we’ll learn to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam:

• The AWS Fundamentals: IAM, EC2, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, EBS, EFS, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront
• The AWS CLI: CLI setup, usage on EC2, best practices, SDK, advanced usage
• In-Depth Database comparison: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, QLDB, Timestream
• Analytics services comparison: Athena, EMR, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lake Formation, Kinesis Data Analytics, MSK, QuickSight, Glue
• Machine Learning services: Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate, Lex, Comprehend, SageMaker, Forecast, Kendra, Personalize, Textract.
• Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, Config
• AWS Integration & Messaging: SQS, SNS, Kinesis Amazon MQ
• AWS Serverless: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions
• AWS Containers Services: ECS, ECR, EKS, App Runner
• AWS Security best practices: KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, IAM Policies, Cognito, Shield, WAF, Firewall Manager, SSO, Certificate Manager, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie
• VPC & Networking in depth
• Disaster Recovery & Migrations: DMS, Aurora & RDS Migrations, AWS Backup, Application Migration Service, VMware Cloud on AWS
• AWS Other Services Overview: CloudFormation, SES, Pinpoint, SSM Session Manager, Elastic Transcoder, Batch, AppFlow…
• Tips to ROCK the exam

This AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course is full of opportunities to apply your knowledge:

• There are many hands-on lectures in every section
• There are quizzes at the end of every section
• There’s an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate practice exam at the end of the course
• We’ll be using the AWS Free Tier most of the time
• I’ll be showing you how to go beyond the AWS Free Tier (you know… the real world!)