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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Scaling and Decoupling Architectures

Scalable architectures are critical in AWS. In this course, you will learn about decoupling, scaling, and automating workloads, as well as how each of these principles can help you for your AWS Certified Solutions - Architect exam.

Intermediate
13h 40m
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Created by Andru Estes

Last Updated Feb 27, 2025

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Scaling and Decoupling Architectures

Scalable architectures are critical in AWS. In this course, you will learn about decoupling, scaling, and automating workloads, as well as how each of these principles can help you for your AWS Certified Solutions - Architect exam.

Intermediate
13h 40m
(2)

Created by Andru Estes

Last Updated Feb 27, 2025

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Becoming an AWS Solutions Architect requires that you have a deep understanding of the entire AWS ecosystem and an understanding of properly designing optimized, decoupled architectures. In this course, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Scaling and Decoupling Architectures, you’re going to learn to efficiently implement AWS services and best practices to achieve this. First, you’ll explore how to leverage Elastic Load Balancers to front Auto Scaling Groups for self-healing architectures, as well as implementing messaging queues via Amazon SQS. Next, you’ll discover how to leverage serverless options for event-driven designs, including Amazon ECS containers, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon EventBridge buses. Finally, you’ll learn how to implement different networking and application caching features to improve response times of your applications using services like Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of AWS Solutions Architecture needed to pass exam objectives covering these different AWS services, as well as successfully implement them into real-world designs.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Scaling and Decoupling Architectures
Intermediate
13h 40m
(2)
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Andru Estes - Pluralsight course - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03): Scaling and Decoupling Architectures
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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