AWS-201 Intermediate ⏱ 8 weeks

AWS Solutions Architect

Design highly-available architectures on AWS. Aligned with the Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam with weekly hands-on labs.

Prerequisites: AWS-101 AWS Cloud Foundations

Syllabus

Module 1 — Networking

  • VPC design, subnets, routing
  • Security groups and NACLs
  • Load balancers
  • Route 53

Module 2 — Compute & storage

  • EC2 in depth, auto scaling
  • S3 storage classes and lifecycle
  • EBS and EFS

Module 3 — Databases

  • RDS and Aurora
  • DynamoDB
  • ElastiCache
  • Backup strategies

Module 4 — Architecture

  • High availability patterns
  • Decoupling: SQS, SNS
  • Serverless: Lambda, API Gateway
  • Cost optimization