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AWS Solutions Architect Associate Study Notes

Comprehensive study materials covering all SAA-C03 exam domains and objectives.

Design Resilient Architectures (26%)

Multi-AZ and Multi-Region Architectures

Availability Zones (AZs)

Isolated locations within AWS Regions
Connected with low-latency links
Design for single AZ failure tolerance
Use multiple AZs for high availability

Multi-Region Considerations

Disaster recovery and business continuity
Data sovereignty and compliance
Latency optimization for global users
Cross-region replication strategies

Scalable and Loosely Coupled Architectures

Auto Scaling

EC2 Auto Scaling Groups
Application Auto Scaling
Predictive scaling and scheduled scaling
Target tracking scaling policies

Loose Coupling Patterns

SQS for asynchronous messaging
SNS for pub/sub notifications
EventBridge for event-driven architectures
API Gateway for microservices

Fault-Tolerant Storage

Amazon S3

11 9's (99.999999999%) durability
Cross-Region Replication (CRR)
Versioning and MFA Delete
S3 Transfer Acceleration

Amazon EBS

Automatic replication within AZ
Snapshot backup to S3
Cross-region snapshot copying
EBS Multi-Attach for shared storage

Quick Reference

Exam Format

65 questions, 130 minutes
Multiple choice, multiple response
Passing score: 720/1000

Key AWS Services

Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS
Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, FSx
Database: RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
Networking: VPC, ELB, CloudFront, Route 53

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