Lectures

Introduction - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

1. [SAA-C03] Course Introduction - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
2. Creating an AWS Account
3. Important Message
4. About your instructor

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Getting started with AWS

1. AWS Cloud Overview - Regions & AZ
2. Tour of the AWS Console & Services in AWS
3. About the UI changes in the course

IAM & AWS CLI

1. IAM Introduction Users, Groups, Policies
2. IAM Users & Groups Hands On
3. IAM Policies
4. IAM Policies Hands On
5. IAM MFA Overview
6. IAM MFA Hands On
7. AWS Access Keys, CLI and SDK
8. AWS CLI Setup on Windows
9. AWS CLI Setup on Mac OS X
10. AWS CLI Setup on Linux
11. AWS CLI Hands On
12. AWS CloudShell
13. IAM Roles for AWS Services
14. IAM Roles Hands On
15. IAM Security Tools
16. IAM Security Tools Hands On
17. IAM Best Practices
18. IAM Summary

EC2 Fundamentals

1. 001 AWS Budget Setup
2. 002 EC2 Basics
3. 003 Create an EC2 Instance with EC2 User Data to have a Website Hands On
4. 004 EC2 Instance Types Basics
5. 005 Security Groups & Classic Ports Overview
6. 006 Security Groups Hands On
7. 007 SSH Overview
8. 008 How to SSH using Linux or Mac
9. 009 How to SSH using Windows
10. 010 How to SSH using Windows 10
11. 012 EC2 Instance Connect
12. 013 EC2 Instance Roles Demo
13. 014 EC2 Instance Purchasing Options
14. 015 Spot Instances & Spot Fleet
15. 016 EC2 Instances Launch Types Hands On

EC2 - Solutions Architect Associate Level

1. 001 Private vs Public vs Elastic IP
2. 002 Private vs Public vs Elastic IP Hands On
3. 003 EC2 Placement Groups
4. 004 EC2 Placement Groups - Hands On
5. 005 Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) - Overview
6. 006 Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) - Hands On
7. 008 EC2 Hibernate
8. 009 EC2 Hibernate - Hands On

EC2 Instance Storage

1. 001 EBS Overview
2. 002 EBS Hands On
3. 003 [SAA-C03] EBS Snapshots
4. 004 EBS Snapshots - Hands On
5. 005 AMI Overview
6. 006 AMI Hands On
7. 007 EC2 Instance Store
8. 008 EBS Volume Types
9. 009 [SAA-C03] EBS Multi-Attach
10. 010 EBS Encryption
11. 011 Amazon EFS
12. 012 Amazon EFS - Hands On
13. 013 EFS vs EBS
14. 014 EBS & EFS - Section Cleanup

High Availability and Scalability ELB & ASG

1. 001 High Availability and Scalability
2. 002 Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Overview
3. 003 Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
4. 004 Classic Load Balancer (CLB) - Hands On
5. 005 Application Load Balancer (ALB)
6. 006 Application Load Balancer (ALB) - Hands On
7. 007 [SAA-C03] Network Load Balancer (NLB)
8. 008 Network Load Balancer (NLB) - Hands On
9. 009 Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
10. 010 Elastic Load Balancer - Sticky Sessions
11. 011 Elastic Load Balancer - Cross Zone Load Balancing
12. 012 Elastic Load Balancer - SSL Certificates
13. 013 Elastic Load Balancer - Connection Draining
14. 014 Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) Overview
15. 015 Auto Scaling Groups Hands On
16. 016 Auto Scaling Groups - Scaling Policies
17. 017 Auto Scaling Groups - Scaling Policies Hands On

AWS Fundamentals RDS + Aurora + ElastiCache

1. [SAA-C03] Amazon RDS Overview
2. RDS Read Replicas vs Multi AZ
3. Amazon RDS Hands On
4. [SAA-C03] RDS Custom for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
5. [SAA-C03] Amazon Aurora
6. Amazon Aurora - Hands On
7. [SAA-C03] Amazon Aurora - Advanced Concepts
8. [SAA-C03] RDS & Aurora - Backup and Monitoring
9. [SAA-C03] RDS Security
10. [SAA-C03] RDS Proxy
11. ElastiCache Overview
12. ElastiCache Hands On
13. ElastiCache for Solution Architects

Route 53

1. What is a DNS
2. Route 53 Overview
3. Route 53 - Registering a domain
4. Route 53 - Creating our first records
5. Route 53 - EC2 Setup
6. Route 53 - TTL
7. Route 53 CNAME vs Alias
8. Routing Policy - Simple
9. Routing Policy - Weighted
10. Routing Policy - Latency
11. Route 53 - Health Checks
12. Route 53 - Health Checks Hands On
13. Routing Policy - Failover
14. Routing Policy - Geolocation
15. Routing Policy - Geoproximity
16. Routing Policy - Multi Value
17. 3rd Party Domains & Route 53
18. Route 53 - Section Cleanup

Classic Solutions Architecture Discussions

1. Solutions Architecture Discussions Overview
2. WhatsTheTime.com
3. MyClothes.com
4. MyWordPress.com
5. Instantiating applications quickly
6. Beanstalk Overview
7. Beanstalk Hands On

Amazon S3 Introduction

1. Amazon S3 - Section Introduction
2. S3 Buckets and Objects
3. S3 Buckets and Objects - Hands On
4. S3 Versioning
5. S3 Versioning - Hands On
6. S3 Encryption
7. S3 Encryption - Hands On
8. S3 Security & Bucket Policies
9. S3 Bucket Policies Hands On
10. S3 Websites
11. S3 CORS
12. S3 CORS Hands On

AWS SDK, IAM Roles & Policies

1. IAM Roles and Policies Hands On
2. AWS Policy Simulator
3. AWS EC2 Instance Metadata
4. AWS SDK Overview

Advanced Amazon S3

1. S3 MFA Delete
2. S3 MFA Delete Hands On
3. S3 Default Encryption
4. S3 Access Logs
5. S3 Access Logs - Hands On
6. S3 Replication (Cross Region and Same Region)
7. S3 Replication - Hands On
8. S3 Pre-signed URLs
9. S3 Pre-signed URLs - Hands On
10. S3 Storage Classes + Glacier
11. S3 Storage Classes + Glacier - Hands On
12. S3 Lifecycle Rules
13. S3 Lifecycle Rules - Hands On
14. S3 Analytics
15. S3 Performance
16. S3 Select & Glacier Select
17. S3 Event Notifications
18. S3 Event Notifications - Hands On
19. S3 Requester Pays
20. [SAA-C03] Glacier Vault Lock & S3 Object Lock
21. [SAA-C03] S3 Object Lambda
22. [SAA-C03] S3 Batch Operations

Decoupling applications SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Active MQ

1. Introduction to Messaging
2. Amazon SQS - Standard Queues Overview
3. SQS - Standard Queue Hands On
4. SQS - Message Visibility Timeout
5. SQS - Long Polling
6. SQS - FIFO Queues
7. [SAA-C03] SQS + Auto Scaling Group
8. Amazon Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS)
9. SNS and SQS - Fan Out Pattern
10. SNS - Hands On
11. Amazon Kinesis - Overview
12. Kinesis Data Streams Overview
13. Kinesis Data Streams Hands On
14. Kinesis Data Firehose Overview
15. Kinesis Data Firehose Hands On
16. Data Ordering for Kinesis vs SQS FIFO
17. SQS vs SNS vs Kinesis
18. Amazon MQ

Containers on AWS ECS, Fargate, ECR & EKS

1. Docker Introduction
2. Amazon ECS
3. Creating ECS Cluster - Hands On
4. Creating ECS Service - Hands On
5. Amazon ECS - Auto Scaling
6. Amazon ECS - Solutions Architectures
7. Amazon ECR
8. [SAA-C03] Amazon EKS - Overview
9. [SAA-C03] Amazon EKS - Hands On
10. [SAA-C03] AWS App Runner
11. [SAA-C03] AWS App Runner - Hands On

Serverless Overviews from a Solution Architect Perspective

1. Serverless Introduction
2. Lambda Overview
3. Lambda Hands-On
4. Lambda Limits
5. Lambda@Edge
6. [SAA-C03] Lambda in VPC
7. [SAA-C03] Amazon DynamoDB
8. Amazon DynamoDB - Hands-On
9. [SAA-C03] Amazon DynamoDB - Advanced Features
10. [SAA-C03] API Gateway Overview
11. API Gateway Basics Hands-On
12. [SAA-C03] Step Functions

Serverless Solution Architecture Discussions

1. Mobile Application MyTodoList
2. Serverless Website MyBlog.com
3. MicroServices Architecture
4. Software updates distribution

Databases in AWS

1. [SAA-C03] Choosing the right database
2. [SAA-C03] RDS
3. [SAA-C03] Aurora
4. [SAA-C03] ElastiCache
5. [SAA-C03] DynamoDB
6. [SAA-C03] S3
7. [SAA-C03] DocumentDB
8. [SAA-C03] Neptune
9. [SAA-C03] Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
10. [SAA-C03] QLDB
11. [SAA-C03] Timestream

Data & Analytics

1. [SAA-C03] Athena
2. Athena Hands On
3. [SAA-C03] Redshift
4. [SAA-C03] OpenSearch (ex ElasticSearch)
5. [SAA-C03] EMR
6. [SAA-C03] QuickSight
7. [SAA-C03] Glue
8. [SAA-C03] Lake Formation
9. [SAA-C03] Kinesis Data Analytics
10. [SAA-C03] Kinesis Data Analytics - Hands On
11. [SAA-C03] MSK - Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
12. Big Data Ingestion Pipeline

Machine Learning

1. [SAA-C03] Rekognition Overview
2. [SAA-C03] Transcribe Overview
3. [SAA-C03] Polly Overview
4. [SAA-C03] Translate Overview
5. [SAA-C03] Lex + Connect Overview
6. [SAA-C03] Comprehend Overview
7. [SAA-C03] Comprehend Medical Overview
8. [SAA-C03] SageMaker Overview
9. [SAA-C03] Forecast Overview
10. [SAA-C03] Kendra Overview
11. [SAA-C03] Personalize Overview
12. [SAA-C03] Textract Overview
13. [SAA-C03] Machine Learning Summary

AWS Monitoring & Audit CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Config

1. AWS Monitoring - Section Introduction
2. [SAA-C03] CloudWatch Metrics
3. CloudWatch Logs
4. CloudWatch Logs Hands On
5. CloudWatch Agent & CloudWatch Logs Agent
6. CloudWatch Alarms
7. CloudWatch Alarms Hands On
8. EventBridge Overview (formerly CloudWatch Events)
9. Amazon EventBridge - Hands On
10. [SAA-C03] CloudWatch Insights and Operational Visibility
11. [SAA-C03] CloudTrail Overview
12. CloudTrail Hands On
13. AWS Config - Overview
14. AWS Config - Hands On
15. CloudTrail vs CloudWatch vs Config

Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Advanced

1. [SAA-C03] Organizations - Overview
2. Organizations - Hands On
3. [SAA-C03] IAM - Advanced Policies
4. [SAA-C03] IAM - Resource-based Policies vs IAM Roles
5. IAM - Policy Evaluation Logic
6. AWS Single Sign On (SSO) - Overview
7. [SAA-C03] Amazon Cognito Overview

AWS Security & Encryption KMS, SSM Parameter Store, CloudHSM, Shield, WAF

1. AWS Security - Section Introduction
2. Encryption 101
3. KMS Overview
4. KMS Hands On w CLI
5. [SAA-C03] KMS - Multi-Region Keys
6. [SAA-C03] S3 Replication with Encryption
7. [SAA-C03] Encrypted AMI Sharing Process
8. SSM Parameter Store Overview
9. SSM Parameter Store Hands On (CLI)
10. SSM Parameter Store Hands On (AWS Lambda)
11. AWS Secrets Manager - Overview
12. AWS Secrets Manager - Hands On
13. [SAA-C03] AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
14. [SAA-C03] Web Application Firewall (WAF)
15. [SAA-C03] Shield - DDoS Protection
16. [SAA-C03] Firewall Manager
17. [SAA-C03] WAF & Shield - Hands On
18. [SAA-C03] DDoS Protection Best Practices
19. Amazon GuardDuty
20. Amazon Inspector
21. Macie

Networking - VPC

1. Section Introduction
2. CIDR, Private vs Public IP
3. Default VPC Overview
4. VPC Overview
5. VPC Hands On
6. Subnet Overview
7. Subnet Hands On
8. Internet Gateways & Route Tables
9. Internet Gateways & Route Tables Hands On
10. [SAA-C03] Bastion Hosts
11. Bastion Hosts Hands On
12. NAT Instances
13. NAT Instances Hands On
14. NAT Gateways
15. NAT Gateways Hands On
16. NACL & Security Groups
17. NACL & Security Groups Hands On
18. VPC Peering
19. VPC Peering Hands On
20. [SAA-C03] VPC Endpoints
21. VPC Endpoints Hands On
22. [SAA-C03] VPC Flow Logs
23. VPC Flow Logs Hands On + Athena
24. Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway
25. Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway Hands On
26. Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway
27. [SAA-C03] Direct Connect + Site to Site VPN
28. Transit Gateway
29. VPC Traffic Mirroring
30. IPv6 for VPC
31. IPv6 for VPC - Hands On
32. Egress Only Internet Gateway
33. Egress Only Internet Gateway Hands On
34. Section Cleanup
35. VPC Section Summary
36. Networking Costs in AWS
37. [SAA-C03] AWS Network Firewall

Disaster Recovery & Migrations

1. Disaster Recovery in AWS
2. Database Migration Service (DMS)
3. Database Migration Service (DMS) - Hands On
4. [SAA-C03] RDS & Aurora Migrations
5. On-Premises Strategies with AWS
6. AWS Backup
7. AWS Backup - Hands On
8. [SAA-C03] Application Migration Service (MGN)
9. Transferring Large Datasets into AWS
10. [SAA-C03] VMware Cloud on AWS

Other Services

1. Other Services Section Introduction
2. [SAA-C03] CloudFormation Intro
3. [SAA-C03] CloudFormation Hands-On
4. [SAA-C03] Amazon SES
5. [SAA-C03] Amazon Pinpoint
6. [SAA-C03] SSM Session Manager
7. [SAA-C03] Elastic Transcoder
8. [SAA-C03] AWS Batch
9. [SAA-C03] Amazon AppFlow

WhitePapers and Architectures - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

1. WhitePaper Section Introduction
2. AWS Well-Architected Framework & Well-Architected Tool
3. AWS Trusted Advisor Overview + Hands-On
4. Examples of Architecture - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Preparing for the Exam + Practice Exam - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Assoc

1. Exam Preparation - Section Introduction
2. State of Learning Checkpoint - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
3. Exam Tips - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
4. Exam Walkthrough and Signup
5. Save 50% on your AWS Exam Cost!
6. Get an Extra 30 Minutes on your AWS Exam - Non Native English Speakers only
7. How does the exam work

Congratulations - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

1. Congratulations - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
2. THANK YOU!

CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator

1. CloudFront Overview
2. CloudFront with S3 - Hands On
3. [SAA-C03] CloudFront - Price Classes
4. [SAA-C03] CloudFront - Cache Invalidation
5. AWS Global Accelerator - Overview
6. AWS Global Accelerator - Hands On

AWS Storage Extras

1. AWS Snow Family Overview
2. AWS Snow Family Hands On
3. Architecture Snowball into Glacier
4. [SAA-C03] Amazon FSx
5. Amazon FSx - Hands On
6. [SAA-C03] Storage Gateway Overview
7. Storage Gateway Hands On
8. AWS Transfer Family
9. [SAA-C03] DataSync - Overview
10. [SAA-C03] All AWS Storage Options Compared