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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Cheat Sheet

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam covers a breadth of topics, including the right

choice of AWS services

under different conditions and constraints, setting up high-availability architectures, disaster recovery, hybrid

cloud models,

networking/routing traffic in different configurations, etc.

Answering AWS SAA Questions:

- Many questions on the exam present a situation and identify constraints (e.g., a database must be stored

on-prem, data in transit must be encrypted).

- Choose AWS services, features, or options that optimize:

- Lowest cost (e.g., serverless options like Lambda or Athena)

- Scalability (e.g., serverless services like Lambda)

- Least operational complexity (e.g., managed services like RDS)

- Easiest implementation

AWS Cloud Practitioner: A Prerequisite for AWS SAA?

- Not a prerequisite, but helpful to understand AWS services basics.

### EC2 Instances

- **300 Instance Types across 5 Families**:

- General Purpose, Memory-Optimized, Storage-Optimized, Compute-Optimized, Accelerated Computing

- **Instance Purchasing Options**:

- On-Demand, Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, Dedicated Hosts, Bare Metal EC2
### Placement Groups

- **Cluster Placement Group**: Low latency, high throughput (HPC).

- **Partition Placement Group**: Hardware separation for distributed workloads.

- **Spread Placement Group**: Reduces correlated failures.

### Networking and VPC

- **VPC**: Virtual network similar to an on-prem data center network.

- Subnets map to Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability.

- Route tables, gateways, and NAT devices are essential components.

- VPC endpoints provide private connectivity without internet exposure.

### Scaling and Load Balancing

- Auto-Scaling Groups (ASG) and Elastic Load Balancers (ALB, NLB, CLB) for scaling and traffic distribution.

- **Scaling Policies**:

- Simple, Scheduled, Dynamic, Step, Target Tracking.

### Storage

- **Instance Store**: Temporary, ephemeral.

- **EBS**: Persistent block storage (SSD, HDD).

- **EFS**: Managed file system for Linux, scalable, multi-AZ.

- **S3**: Durable object storage with lifecycle policies and Glacier integration.

### Databases

- **RDS**: Managed relational DB with multi-AZ and read replicas.

- **DynamoDB**: NoSQL, key-value store with millisecond latency.

- **ElastiCache**: In-memory caching for RDS and DynamoDB.


### Disaster Recovery

- **Strategies**:

- Backup and Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Site.

### Security

- **IAM**: Secure access controls.

- **Encryption**:

- Data at rest (SSE, KMS, CloudHSM) and in transit (SSL/TLS).

### Monitoring and Analytics

- **CloudWatch**: Metrics, alarms, dashboards.

- **CloudTrail**: Audit logs for API calls.

- **Athena**: Serverless query on S3 data.

### Additional Services

- **Route 53**: DNS routing, health checks, geolocation routing.

- **API Gateway**: API management with caching and throttling.

- **Amazon MQ**: Managed ActiveMQ.

- **Elastic Beanstalk**: PaaS for app deployment.

- **AWS Config**: Resource compliance tracking.

- **Redshift**: Data warehouse for complex queries.

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