AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Preparation Steps

Main sources are described at: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certification-prep/

• Udemyy course: https://www.udemy.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/learn/v4/overview

• List of materials: https://gist.github.com/leonardofed/bbf6459ad154ad5215d354f3825435dc

Main Areas Covered by Exam

• Compute
• Networking
• Content Delivery
• Security and Identity
• Storage
• Databases
• Management Tools
• Messaging and dekstop and app-steaming on very high level.

Main Services

• Compute (EC2, EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Lightsail)
• Networking (VPC, Route53, CloudFront, DirectConnect)
• Content Delivery
• Security and Identity (IAM, Inspector, Certificate Management, Directory Service, WAF)
• Storage (S3, Glacier, EFS, Storage Gateway)
• Databases (RDS, DynamoDB, RedShift, Elasticache)
• Management Tools (Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Cloud Trail, OpsWork, Config, Service Catalog, Trusted Advisor)
• Migration (Snowball, DMS, SMS - Server Migration Service)
• Analytics (Athena, EMR, Cloud Search, Elastic Search, Kinesis, Data Pipeline, Quick Sight)
• Application Services (Step Functions, SWF - Simple Workflow Service, API Gateway, App Stream, Elastic Transcoder)
• Developer Tools (Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline)
• Mobile Services (Mobile Hub, Cognito, Device Farm, Mobile Analytics, PinPoint)
• Business Productivity (WorksDocs, WorkMail)
• IoT (iOT)
• Dekstop and App Stream (Workspaces, AppStream 2.0)
• Artificial Intelligence (lex, polly, machine learning, rekognition)
• Messaging (SQS, SNSб SES)

Global Infrastructure

General information: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

List of regions and appropriate features are available at: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/

List of end points: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html