AWS Solutions Architect Associate Bootcamp
Bootcamp Certificate Track
Build cloud architecture fundamentals with AWS. Master secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized design patterns through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios. Estimated effort: 60–90 hours.
🔗 Official Certification PageWho This Is For
- Engineers starting architecture roles on AWS
- IT professionals moving to AWS
What You'll Gain
- Strong AWS architecture fundamentals
- Confidence designing secure and resilient systems
Start Date
Rolling Enrollment
New cohorts start every month
Duration
6 Weeks
AWS Solutions Architect Associate prep
Instructor
CloudeGree Academy
Learn from AWS-certified instructors with extensive real-world architecture experience. Our academy provides hands-on, exam-focused training designed to get you AWS certified faster.
What You'll Learn
Secure Architectures
Design secure access with IAM, VPC, and security services
Resilient Systems
Implement high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
High-Performance Solutions
Optimize compute, storage, networking, and database performance
Cost-Optimized Design
Master cost optimization strategies and AWS pricing models
6-Week Bootcamp Curriculum
Hands-on training covering all SAA-C03 exam domains with practical labs
Week 1 - Identity, Access & Secure AWS Foundations
Exam Focus: Task 1.1 – Design secure access to AWS resources
What You'll Learn
- AWS shared responsibility model
- AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones
- Identity and access services: IAM, IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO)
- Root user and IAM user security (MFA, least privilege)
- IAM users, groups, roles, and policies
- Role-based access control using AWS STS, role switching, cross-account access
- Multi-account security strategy: AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- When to use resource-based policies
- Federation with external identity providers
Hands-On Labs
- Secure the root account and configure MFA
- Create IAM users, roles, and policies
- Implement cross-account access with IAM roles
- Design a multi-account structure using AWS Organizations
Week 2 - Secure Networking & Application Protection
Exam Focus: Task 1.2 – Design secure workloads and applications
What You'll Learn
- Secure VPC design: Security groups, Network ACLs, Route tables, NAT gateways
- Public vs private subnet design
- Secure application access patterns
- Protecting applications with AWS WAF, AWS Shield, AWS Cognito
- Secrets and credentials management using AWS Secrets Manager
- Securing external connectivity: Site-to-site VPN, Client VPN, AWS Direct Connect
- Threat vectors: DDoS, injection attacks
Hands-On Labs
- Design a secure multi-tier VPC architecture
- Implement private subnets with NAT access
- Protect an application using AWS WAF
- Store and retrieve secrets using Secrets Manager
Week 3 - Data Security & Encryption
Exam Focus: Task 1.3 – Determine appropriate data security controls
What You'll Learn
- Data access governance and classification
- Encryption strategies: At rest (AWS KMS), In transit (ACM, TLS)
- Key management and rotation
- Backup and replication strategies
- Data lifecycle and retention policies
- Aligning AWS services with compliance requirements
Hands-On Labs
- Encrypt data using AWS KMS
- Implement TLS using AWS Certificate Manager
- Configure S3 lifecycle and access policies
- Design backup and replication strategies
Week 4 - Scalable, Loosely Coupled & Event-Driven Architectures
Exam Focus: Task 2.1 – Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
What You'll Learn
- Microservices and event-driven architectures
- Messaging and queuing: Amazon SQS, SNS
- API design using Amazon API Gateway
- Serverless architectures: AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate
- Container orchestration: Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS
- Caching strategies: Amazon ElastiCache
- Load balancing concepts: Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- Storage types: Object, file, block
- Workflow orchestration: AWS Step Functions
Hands-On Labs
- Build an event-driven architecture using SQS and Lambda
- Deploy a containerized application using ECS or EKS
- Implement API Gateway with backend services
- Add caching using ElastiCache
Week 5 - High Availability, Fault Tolerance & Performance
Exam Focus: Tasks 2.2 + 3.x – High availability & performance
What You'll Learn
- High availability across AZs and Regions
- Disaster recovery strategies: Backup and restore, Pilot light, Warm standby, Active-active
- RTO and RPO design
- Auto scaling strategies
- Immutable infrastructure
- Database performance and scaling: Read replicas, Proxies
- Storage performance and durability
- Monitoring and tracing: Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray
Hands-On Labs
- Design a multi-AZ highly available architecture
- Implement EC2 Auto Scaling
- Configure read replicas for databases
- Monitor workloads using CloudWatch and X-Ray
Week 6 - Cost-Optimized Architectures & Capstone
Exam Focus: Task 4.x – Cost optimization
What You'll Learn
- AWS cost management tools: Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost and Usage Report
- Cost allocation tags and multi-account billing
- Cost-optimized storage strategies: S3 tiers, Lifecycle policies
- Cost-optimized compute: Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans
- Cost-optimized databases: RDS vs DynamoDB, Serverless options
- Cost-optimized networking: NAT gateway vs NAT instance, VPC endpoints, CloudFront and Global Accelerator
Hands-On Labs
- Design cost-optimized storage and lifecycle policies
- Compare compute purchasing options
- Optimize database and network costs
- Review workloads for cost improvements
Capstone Project
- Design a secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-optimized AWS architecture
- Cover: Identity and security, Networking, Compute, Storage, Databases
- Architecture review and justification session
Certification Outcome
By completing this bootcamp, learners will be able to:
- Design secure and resilient AWS architectures
- Select appropriate AWS services based on requirements
- Optimize for performance, availability, and cost
- Confidently sit the SAA-C03 certification exam
- Perform effectively in Cloud Engineer / Junior Solutions Architect roles
Need a Custom Learning Path?
If you are new to cloud computing, we recommend starting with Cloud Foundation - Live Bootcamp before AWS SAA.
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