Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2025

Introduction – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
1 Course Introduction – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
2 PLEASE READ Lectures you can skip if you took a course from me before
3 Creating an AWS Account
4 AWS Account Activation Troubleshooting
5 Important Message
6 About your instructor

Code & Slides Download
7 Slides and Code Download

Getting started with AWS
8 AWS Cloud Overview – Regions & AZ
9 Tour of the AWS Console & Services in AWS
10 About the UI changes in the course

IAM & AWS CLI
11 IAM Introduction Users, Groups, Policies
12 IAM Users & Groups Hands On
13 IAM Policies
14 IAM Policies Hands On
15 IAM MFA Overview
16 IAM MFA Hands On
17 AWS Access Keys, CLI and SDK
18 AWS CLI Setup on Windows
19 AWS CLI Setup on Mac OS X
20 AWS CLI Setup on Linux
21 AWS CLI Hands On
22 AWS CloudShell Region Availability
23 AWS CloudShell
24 IAM Roles for AWS Services
25 IAM Roles Hands On
26 IAM Security Tools
27 IAM Security Tools Hands On
28 IAM Best Practices
29 IAM Summary

EC2 Fundamentals
30 AWS Budget Setup
31 EC2 Basics
32 Create an EC2 Instance with EC2 User Data to have a Website Hands On
33 EC2 Instance Types Basics
34 Security Groups & Classic Ports Overview
35 Security Groups Hands On
36 SSH Overview
37 How to SSH using Linux or Mac
38 How to SSH using Windows
39 How to SSH using Windows 10
40 SSH Troubleshooting
41 EC2 Instance Connect
42 EC2 Instance Roles Demo
43 EC2 Instance Purchasing Options
44 IP Address Charges in AWS
45 Spot Instances & Spot Fleet
46 EC2 Instances Launch Types Hands On

EC2 – Solutions Architect Associate Level
47 Private vs Public vs Elastic IP
48 Private vs Public vs Elastic IP Hands On
49 EC2 Placement Groups
50 EC2 Placement Groups – Hands On
51 Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) – Overview
52 Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) – Hands On
53 ENI – Extra Reading
54 EC2 Hibernate
55 EC2 Hibernate – Hands On

EC2 Instance Storage
56 EBS Overview
57 EBS Hands On
58 EBS Snapshots
59 EBS Snapshots – Hands On
60 AMI Overview
61 AMI Hands On
62 EC2 Instance Store
63 EBS Volume Types
64 EBS Multi-Attach
65 EBS Encryption
66 Amazon EFS
67 Amazon EFS – Hands On
68 EFS vs EBS
69 EBS & EFS – Section Cleanup

High Availability and Scalability ELB & ASG
70 High Availability and Scalability
71 Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Overview
72 Note About the Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
73 Application Load Balancer (ALB)
74 Application Load Balancer (ALB) – Hands On – Part 1
75 Application Load Balancer (ALB) – Hands On – Part 2
76 Network Load Balancer (NLB)
77 Network Load Balancer (NLB) – Hands On
78 Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
79 Elastic Load Balancer – Sticky Sessions
80 Elastic Load Balancer – Cross Zone Load Balancing
81 Elastic Load Balancer – SSL Certificates
82 Elastic Load Balancer – SSL Certificates – Hands On
83 Elastic Load Balancer – Connection Draining
84 Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) Overview
85 Auto Scaling Groups Hands On
86 Auto Scaling Groups – Scaling Policies
87 Auto Scaling Groups – Scaling Policies Hands On

AWS Fundamentals RDS + Aurora + ElastiCache
88 Amazon RDS Overview
89 RDS Read Replicas vs Multi AZ
90 Amazon RDS Hands On
91 RDS Custom for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
92 Amazon Aurora
93 Amazon Aurora – Hands On
94 Amazon Aurora – Advanced Concepts
95 RDS & Aurora – Backup and Monitoring
96 RDS Security
97 RDS Proxy
98 ElastiCache Overview
99 ElastiCache Hands On
100 ElastiCache for Solution Architects
101 List of Ports to be familiar with

Route 53
102 What is a DNS
103 Route 53 Overview
104 Route 53 – Registering a domain
105 Route 53 – Creating our first records
106 Route 53 – EC2 Setup
107 Route 53 – TTL
108 Route 53 CNAME vs Alias
109 Routing Policy – Simple
110 Routing Policy – Weighted
111 Routing Policy – Latency
112 Route 53 – Health Checks
113 Route 53 – Health Checks Hands On
114 Routing Policy – Failover
115 Routing Policy – Geolocation
116 Routing Policy – Geoproximity
117 Routing Policy – IP-based
118 Routing Policy – Multi Value
119 rd Party Domains & Route 53
120 Route 53 – Section Cleanup

Classic Solutions Architecture Discussions
121 Solutions Architecture Discussions Overview
122 WhatsTheTime.com
123 MyClothes.com
124 MyWordPress.com
125 Instantiating applications quickly
126 Beanstalk Overview
127 Beanstalk Hands On

Amazon S3 Introduction
128 S3 Overview
129 S3 Hands On
130 S3 Security Bucket Policy
131 S3 Security Bucket Policy Hands On
132 S3 Website Overview
133 S3 Website Hands On
134 S3 Versioning
135 S3 Versioning – Hands On
136 S3 Replication
137 S3 Replication Notes
138 S3 Replication – Hands On
139 S3 Storage Classes Overview
140 S3 Storage Classes Hands On

Advanced Amazon S3
141 S3 Lifecycle Rules (with S3 Analytics)
142 S3 Lifecycle Rules – Hands On
143 S3 Requester Pays
144 S3 Event Notifications
145 S3 Event Notifications – Hands On
146 S3 Performance
147 S3 Batch Operations
148 S3 Storage Lens

Amazon S3 Security
149 S3 Encryption
150 About DSSE-KMS
151 S3 Encryption – Hands On
152 S3 Default Encryption
153 S3 CORS
154 S3 CORS Hands On
155 S3 MFA Delete
156 S3 MFA Delete Hands On
157 S3 Access Logs
158 S3 Access Logs – Hands On
159 S3 Pre-signed URLs
160 S3 Pre-signed URLs – Hands On
161 Glacier Vault Lock & S3 Object Lock
162 S3 Access Points
163 S3 Object Lambda

CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator
164 CloudFront Overview
165 CloudFront with S3 – Hands On
166 CloudFront – ALB as an Origin
167 CloudFront – Geo Restriction
168 CloudFront – Price Classes
169 CloudFront – Cache Invalidation
170 AWS Global Accelerator – Overview
171 AWS Global Accelerator – Hands On

AWS Storage Extras
172 AWS Snow Family Overview
173 AWS Snow Family Hands On
174 Architecture Snowball into Glacier
175 Amazon FSx
176 Amazon FSx – Hands On
177 Storage Gateway Overview
178 Storage Gateway Hands On
179 AWS Transfer Family
180 DataSync – Overview
181 All AWS Storage Options Compared

Decoupling applications SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Active MQ
182 Introduction to Messaging
183 Amazon SQS – Standard Queues Overview
184 SQS – Standard Queue Hands On
185 SQS – Message Visibility Timeout
186 SQS – Long Polling
187 SQS – FIFO Queues
188 SQS + Auto Scaling Group
189 Amazon Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS)
190 SNS and SQS – Fan Out Pattern
191 SNS – Hands On
192 Amazon Kinesis – Overview
193 Kinesis Data Streams Overview
194 Kinesis Data Streams Hands On
195 Kinesis Data Firehose Overview
196 Kinesis Data Firehose Hands On
197 Kinesis Data Analytics
198 Data Ordering for Kinesis vs SQS FIFO
199 SQS vs SNS vs Kinesis
200 Amazon MQ

Containers on AWS ECS, Fargate, ECR & EKS
201 Docker Introduction
202 Amazon ECS
203 IMPORTANT ECS UI CHANGES
204 Creating ECS Cluster – Hands On
205 Creating ECS Service – Hands On
206 Amazon ECS – Auto Scaling
207 Amazon ECS – Solutions Architectures
208 Amazon ECS – Clean Up – Hands On
209 Amazon ECR
210 Amazon EKS – Overview
211 Amazon EKS – Hands On
212 AWS App Runner
213 AWS App Runner – Hands On
214 AWS App2Container

Serverless Overviews from a Solution Architect Perspective
215 About the Serverless Section
216 Serverless Introduction
217 Lambda Overview
218 Lambda Hands-On
219 Lambda Limits
220 Lambda SnapStart
221 Lambda@Edge & CloudFront Functions
222 Lambda in VPC
223 RDS – Invoking Lambda & Event Notifications
224 Amazon DynamoDB
225 Amazon DynamoDB – Hands-On
226 Amazon DynamoDB – Advanced Features
227 API Gateway Overview
228 API Gateway Basics Hands-On
229 Step Functions
230 Amazon Cognito Overview

Serverless Solution Architecture Discussions
231 Mobile Application MyTodoList
232 Serverless Website MyBlog.com
233 MicroServices Architecture
234 Software updates distribution

Databases in AWS
235 Choosing the right database
236 RDS
237 Aurora
238 ElastiCache
239 DynamoDB
240 S3
241 DocumentDB
242 Neptune
243 Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
244 QLDB
245 Timestream

Data & Analytics
246 Athena
247 Athena Hands On
248 Redshift
249 OpenSearch (ex ElasticSearch)
250 EMR
251 QuickSight
252 Glue
253 Lake Formation
254 Kinesis Data Analytics
255 Kinesis Data Analytics – Hands On
256 MSK – Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
257 Big Data Ingestion Pipeline

Machine Learning
258 Rekognition Overview
259 Transcribe Overview
260 Polly Overview
261 Translate Overview
262 Lex + Connect Overview
263 Comprehend Overview
264 Comprehend Medical Overview
265 SageMaker Overview
266 Forecast Overview
267 Kendra Overview
268 Personalize Overview
269 Textract Overview
270 Machine Learning Summary

AWS Monitoring & Audit CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Config
271 AWS Monitoring – Section Introduction
272 CloudWatch Metrics
273 CloudWatch Logs
274 CloudWatch Logs – Hands On
275 CloudWatch Logs – Live Tail – Hands On
276 CloudWatch Agent & CloudWatch Logs Agent
277 CloudWatch Alarms
278 CloudWatch Alarms Hands On
279 EventBridge Overview (formerly CloudWatch Events)
280 Amazon EventBridge – Hands On
281 CloudWatch Insights and Operational Visibility
282 CloudTrail Overview
283 CloudTrail Hands On
284 CloudTrail – EventBridge Integration
285 AWS Config – Overview
286 AWS Config – Hands On
287 CloudTrail vs CloudWatch vs Config

Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Advanced
288 Organizations – Overview
289 Organizations – Hands On
290 IAM – Advanced Policies
291 IAM – Resource-based Policies vs IAM Roles
292 IAM – Policy Evaluation Logic
293 AWS IAM Identity Center
294 AWS Directory Services
295 AWS Directory Services – Hands On
296 AWS Control Tower

AWS Security & Encryption KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Shield, WAF
297 AWS Security – Section Introduction
298 Encryption 101
299 KMS Overview
300 KMS Hands On w CLI
301 KMS – Multi-Region Keys
302 S3 Replication with Encryption
303 Encrypted AMI Sharing Process
304 SSM Parameter Store Overview
305 SSM Parameter Store Hands On (CLI)
306 SSM Parameter Store Hands On (AWS Lambda)
307 AWS Secrets Manager – Overview
308 AWS Secrets Manager – Hands On
309 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
310 Web Application Firewall (WAF)
311 Shield – DDoS Protection
312 Firewall Manager
313 WAF & Shield – Hands On
314 DDoS Protection Best Practices
315 Amazon GuardDuty
316 Amazon Inspector
317 Amazon Macie

Networking – VPC
318 Section Introduction
319 CIDR, Private vs Public IP
320 Default VPC Overview
321 VPC Overview
322 VPC Hands On
323 Subnet Overview
324 Subnet Hands On
325 Internet Gateways & Route Tables
326 Internet Gateways & Route Tables Hands On
327 Bastion Hosts
328 Bastion Hosts Hands On
329 NAT Instances
330 NAT Instances Hands On
331 NAT Gateways
332 NAT Gateways Hands On
333 NACL & Security Groups
334 NACL & Security Groups Hands On
335 VPC Peering
336 VPC Peering Hands On
337 VPC Endpoints
338 VPC Endpoints Hands On
339 VPC Flow Logs
340 VPC Flow Logs Hands On + Athena
341 Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway
342 Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway Hands On
343 Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway
344 Direct Connect + Site to Site VPN
345 Transit Gateway
346 VPC Traffic Mirroring
347 IPv6 for VPC
348 IPv6 for VPC – Hands On
349 Egress Only Internet Gateway
350 Egress Only Internet Gateway Hands On
351 Section Cleanup
352 VPC Section Summary
353 Networking Costs in AWS
354 AWS Network Firewall

Disaster Recovery & Migrations
355 Disaster Recovery in AWS
356 Database Migration Service (DMS)
357 Database Migration Service (DMS) – Hands On
358 RDS & Aurora Migrations
359 On-Premises Strategies with AWS
360 AWS Backup
361 AWS Backup – Hands On
362 Application Migration Service (MGN)
363 Transferring Large Datasets into AWS
364 VMware Cloud on AWS

More Solution Architectures
365 Event Processing in AWS
366 Caching Strategies in AWS
367 Blocking an IP Address in AWS
368 High Performance Computing (HPC) on AWS
369 EC2 Instance High Availability

Other Services
370 Other Services Section Introduction
371 CloudFormation Intro
372 CloudFormation – Hands On
373 CloudFormation – Service Role
374 Amazon SES
375 Amazon Pinpoint
376 SSM Session Manager
377 SSM Other Services
378 AWS Cost Explorer
379 AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
380 AWS Outposts
381 AWS Batch
382 Amazon AppFlow
383 AWS Amplify
384 Instance Scheduler on AWS

WhitePapers and Architectures – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
385 WhitePaper Section Introduction
386 AWS Well-Architected Framework & Well-Architected Tool
387 AWS Trusted Advisor Overview + Hands-On
388 Examples of Architecture – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Preparing for the Exam + Practice Exam – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Assoc
389 Exam Preparation – Section Introduction
390 State of Learning Checkpoint – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
391 Exam Tips – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
392 Links to Whitepapers
393 Exam Walkthrough and Signup
394 Save 50% on your AWS Exam Cost!
395 Get an Extra 30 Minutes on your AWS Exam – Non Native English Speakers only
396 How does the exam work
397 Practice Exam – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Congratulations – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
398 AWS Certification Paths
399 Congratulations
400 Bonus Lecture