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AWS Solutions Architect Associate Crash Course

Reference: Git Link

Exam guide

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Resilience

  • SLAs for common services, starting on page 54 Link

  • SLAs for each service can be found here Link

  • Single VPC design principles Link

  • Serverless multi-tier architectures Link

  • Route 53 health checks and DNS failover Link

  • AWS global infrastructure Link

  • Migrating resources from one region to another Link

Performance

  • EBS volume types with performance limits Link

  • EFS performance Link

  • Optimizing S3 performance Link

  • RDS performance Link

  • Performance best practices for DynamoDB Link

  • Overview of caching services Link

  • Example of scaling an infrastructure Link

  • Great catalog of launchable solutions in AWS Link

Security

  • My AWS Security Specialty Cert video! Link

  • AWS Organizations FAQ Link

  • Creating WAF Web ACLs Link

  • Using Secrets Manager for RDS credentials Link

  • AWS Transit Gateway for connecting networks Link

  • VPC security Link

Cost Optimization

  • Service pricing can be found as follows Link

Operational Excellence

  • Read the whole whitepaper Link