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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Certification Essentials

This course will teach you about the AWS Well-architected framework, and concepts you must know when designing architectures in AWS.

Beginner
48m
(11)

Created by Andru Estes

Last Updated May 14, 2025

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Certification Essentials

This course will teach you about the AWS Well-architected framework, and concepts you must know when designing architectures in AWS.

Beginner
48m
(11)

Created by Andru Estes

Last Updated May 14, 2025

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To pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam, you must understand many fundamental concepts that are critical to consider when designing architectures. In this course, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Certification Essentials, you’ll learn to understand and implement official best practices and design principles when working in AWS. First, you’ll explore how to take advantage of AWS’ global footprint to design highly available and fault-tolerant solutions. Next, you’ll discover how to own your portion of the Shared Responsibility Model to secure your workloads. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage the AWS CLI to begin working with AWS command line API calls. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the different fundamental certification essentials needed to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Certification Essentials
Beginner
48m
(11)
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Andru Estes - Pluralsight course - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Certification Essentials
Andru Estes
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Andru has been working within the IT industry for just under 15 years. He started off in Systems Administration and Systems Engineering within virtualization platforms like VMware and Hyper-V. Soon after that, he began his journey into the public cloud, where he quickly dove headfirst into AWS and Azure. After working as a Cloud Architect and Consultant for the past 7 years, Andru found his other passion in being able to help students learn about the public cloud and general DevOps methodologies. If it involves public cloud, DevOps, or Python, then Andru is all about it!

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