AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Core Services
The AWS CSAA is one of the top and most difficult to achieve IT certifications in the industry. The course will teach you the necessary skills to not only pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam, but also how to implement core services.
What you'll learn
Becoming an AWS Solutions Architect requires extensive knowledge of the entire AWS ecosystem, and a profound understanding of several core services. In this course, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Core Services, you’ll learn to best architect what are referred to as core services within AWS. First, you’ll explore designing and implementing solutions combining AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, and custom Amazon VPCs. Next, you’ll discover how to store your data properly within services including Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and different network storage like Amazon EFS. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage Amazon Route 53 and the other previously explored components for more advanced architecture design requirements. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of AWS Solutions Architecture needed to pass exam objectives covering these core AWS services, as well as successfully implement them into real-world designs.
Table of contents
- AWS IAM Users and Groups 3m
- Demo: Creating an Admin IAM User and Group 5m
- IAM Policies 7m
- Exploring an IAM Policy 5m
- Demo: Creating an IAM Policy 5m
- Demo: Creating an IAM Inline Policy 3m
- Understanding AWS IAM Access Keys 2m
- Demo: Creating Access Keys 5m
- AWS IAM Credential Reports 2m
- Demo: Creating an AWS IAM Credential Report 3m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 6m
- Amazon EC2 Storage 1m
- Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) 5m
- EBS Volume Types 6m
- Encryption of EBS volumes 2m
- Amazon EBS Snapshots 4m
- Demo: Creating an EBS Volume and Snapshot 10m
- Demo: Copying Snapshots Between AWS Regions 8m
- Demo: Creating Encrypted Version of Unencrypted EBS Snapshots 10m
- EC2 Instance Stores 2m
- Demo: Creating an EC2 Instance Store 6m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 5m
- Connecting to EC2 Instances with Bastion Hosts 7m
- Demo: Connect to EC2 Using SSH 6m
- Demo: Connect to EC2 Using RDP 7m
- Demo: Using EC2 Instance Connect 9m
- Demo: Deploying and Using a Bastion Host 10m
- Connecting to EC2 via Session Manager (SSM) 5m
- Demo: Connect to EC2 via Session Manager in Console 9m
- Demo: Connect to EC2 via Session Manager via CLI 5m
- Using the Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) 6m
- Demo: Exploring the IMDSv2 Information 10m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 4m
- Configuring an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) 5m
- Assigning Static IPv4 with Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs) 2m
- Demo: Associating an EIP 7m
- Dual-home EC2 Instances 3m
- Demo: Creating a Dual-home EC2 Instance 11m
- Increasing Performance with EC2 Placement Groups 4m
- Demo: Launching EC2 Instances in a Placement Group 9m
- AWS Outposts for Localized Compute 3m
- Enhanced Networking for EC2 5m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 4m
- What Is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)? 5m
- Amazon S3 Buckets 4m
- Amazon S3 Objects 6m
- Demo: Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket 4m
- Amazon S3 Storage Classes 7m
- Demo: Create a Bucket with S3 One Zone-IA Storage Class 4m
- Amazon S3 Versioning 3m
- Demo: Enabling S3 Versioning and Recovering a Deleted File 5m
- Amazon S3 Object Lifecycles 4m
- Demo: Transitioning Objects Using Lifecycle Policies 5m
- Amazon S3 Bucket Replication 3m
- Demo: Implement Cross-region Replication in S3 13m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 5m
- Performing Batch Operations with Amazon S3 4m
- Filter Objects Using S3 Select and S3 Glacier Select 4m
- Demo: Filtering Objects Using S3 Select 5m
- Analyzing Data Using S3 Storage Lens 5m
- Receiving Event Notifications from Amazon S3 5m
- Demo: Trigger a Lambda Function Using Event Notifications 11m
- Faster Content Transfer with S3 Transfer Acceleration 2m
- Demo: Testing Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration 2m
- Offloading Costs Using S3 Requester Pays 2m
- Serving Websites from S3 with Website Endpoints 3m
- Demo: Host a Website in Amazon S3 6m
- Optimizing S3 Performance 5m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 6m
- Controlling S3 Access with Bucket Policies 4m
- Breaking Down an S3 Bucket Policy 5m
- Demo: Implement a S3 Bucket Policy 9m
- Bucket and Object Access Control Lists in S3 3m
- Demo: Blocking Public Access to Your Amazon S3 Bucket 5m
- Encrypting Data at Rest in Amazon S3: Overview 3m
- Encrypting Data at Rest in Amazon S3: SSE-S3 1m
- Encrypting Data at Rest in Amazon S3: SSE-KMS 2m
- Encrypting Data at Rest in Amazon S3: SSE-C 3m
- Encrypting Data at Rest in Amazon S3: Client-side 2m
- Optimizing S3 Encryption Using Bucket Keys 2m
- Demo: Enabling SSE-KMS S3 Bucket Key Encryption 3m
- Amazon S3 Encryption in Transit 2m
- Preventing Accidental Deletions with MFA Delete 2m
- Logging Interactions Using S3 Access Logs 2m
- Demo: Turning on Access Logging in S3 7m
- Granting Access to Objects with S3 Presigned URLs 4m
- Demo: Sharing an S3 Presigned URL 4m
- Fine-grained Access Control with S3 Access Points 4m
- Transforming S3 Objects with Object Lambdas 4m
- Using S3 Locks to Meet Compliance Requirements 5m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 8m
- Global DNS with Amazon Route 53 4m
- Managing Domains with Route 53 Hosted Zones 2m
- Demo: Viewing Public Hosted Zones 2m
- Demo: Creating a Private Hosted Zone 3m
- Amazon Route 53 Records 5m
- Demo: Creating an “A” Route 53 Record 5m
- Demo: Creating an “Alias” Route 53 Record 5m
- Demo: Viewing “NS” Route 53 Records 1m
- Amazon Route 53 Routing Policies 6m
- Additional Amazon Route 53 Routing Policies 5m
- Demo: Creating a Simple Routing Policy 1m
- Demo: Creating a Weighted Routing Policy 5m
- Demo: Creating a Failover Routing Policy 7m
- Demo: Creating a Geolocation Routing Policy 4m
- Demo: Using Traffic Flow and Geoproximity Routing 5m
- Demo: Creating a Latency Routing Policy 3m
- Demo: Creating a Multivalue Routing Policy 7m
- Demo: Registering Your Domains in Route 53 4m
- Health Checking Route 53 Resources 4m
- Demo: Setting up Endpoint Health Checks 7m
- Demo: Setting up Calculated Health Checks 5m
- Demo: Setting up Private Hosted Zone Health Checks 6m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 6m
- Exploring Direct Connections 4m
- Choosing the Correct Direct Connect Type 5m
- Centralizing Management with Direct Connect Gateways 3m
- Encrypting Network Traffic with VPN over Direct Connect 2m
- Centralized Traffic with AWS Transit Gateways 4m
- Attaching Transit Gateways 5m
- Module Summary and Exam Tips 3m
About the author
Andru has been working within the IT industry for just under 15 years. He started off in Systems Administration and Systems Engineering within virtualization platforms like VMware and Hyper-V. Soon after that, he began his journey into the public cloud, where he quickly dove headfirst into AWS and Azure. After working as a Cloud Architect and Consultant for the past 7 years, Andru found his other passion in being able to help students learn about the public cloud and general DevOps methodologie... more