AWS in bullet points

• This repo contains study notes for different AWS exams.
• The notes are comprehensive and written with goal of covering all exam areas.
  • I passed the exam with 956/1000 score with these notes.
• Good luck & enjoy studying! ☕

Symbols

• There are some symbols used throughout the documentation:

  Symbol	Description
  💡	Best practice or an important solution
  ❗	An important limitation, challenge or an exception
  📝	Common exam area
  🤗	Fact / trivia (most likely unrelated to the exam)

Content

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

1. Introduction
   1. Interacting with services - AWS CLI & SDK
2. Security
   1. IAM & Organizations
   2. Identity federation (STS, SAML, Cognito, SSO, Directory Service)
   3. Encryption in AWS (SSM, KMS)
3. Monitoring (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config)
4. Compute
   1. EC2
   2. Elastic Beanstalk
   3. Containers - ECS & EKS
   4. Lambda
5. Storage
   1. EC2 Storage (EBS & EFS - Instance Store)
   2. S3
   3. S3 - Security
   4. S3 - Integrated Services (Snowball, Athena, Storage Gateway)
6. Networking
   1. IP Addresses (Elastic IP)
   2. Route 53
   3. VPC
   4. Subnets
   5. Hybrid connections
7. CDN - CloudFront
8. High Availability
   1. High Availability and Scalability
   2. Load Balancers (ELB, CLB, NLB and ALB)
   3. Scalability (ASG)
   4. Disaster Recovery
   5. Infrastructure as Code
9. Databases - Overview
   1. RDS
   2. Aurora
   3. DynamoDB
   4. Redshift
   5. ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached)
   6. Other databases (DocumentDB, Athena, ElasticSearch, Neptune)
10. Integrations
    1. Queues - Overview
       1. SQS
       2. SNS
       3. Kinesis
       4. Amazon MQ
    2. API Gateway
    3. Workflows (SWF & Step Functions)
11. Big Data & Analytics
12. Other services
13. Well Architected Framework
14. Exam Readiness

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