This series follows the AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate syllabus, service by service, with console walkthroughs and CLI commands. It is the largest series on the site and is meant to be read in order: each chapter builds on the previous one.

Part one covers the fundamentals: what cloud computing is, AWS history and global infrastructure, creating an account, and IAM — users, groups, roles and policies. Part two is compute and storage: EC2 instance families, launch templates, purchasing options, security groups, EBS, EFS and the whole S3 chapter (buckets, policies, static hosting, storage classes, lifecycle rules, cross-region replication).

Part three is networking and delivery — VPC, peering, Transit Gateway, ELB, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, Route 53 — then databases (RDS, DynamoDB), messaging (SNS), serverless (Lambda and API Gateway), automation (CloudFormation, SSM, Elastic Beanstalk) and containers (ECS, EKS). The EKS labs go deep: cluster setup, node groups, the cluster autoscaler, CloudWatch logging, the Kubernetes Dashboard and EBS/EFS persistent volumes.

Finish with the quizzes and FAQ to check your readiness for the exam.

Learning path

Fundamentals and IAM

1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect — overview
2. Cloud computing with AWS
3. AWS fundamentals
4. AWS history
5. Create an AWS account
6. IAM — Identity and Access Management

Compute: EC2

1. EC2 overview
2. EC2 instance families
3. EC2 launch templates
4. EC2 purchasing options
5. EC2 example with security groups
6. Auto Scaling and launch configurations
7. Elastic Load Balancer

Storage: EBS, EFS and S3

1. EBS — Elastic Block Store
2. S3 — Simple Storage Service
3. S3 bucket creation example
4. S3 bucket access policies
5. S3 static website hosting — lab
6. S3 storage
7. S3 storage classes
8. S3 lifecycle management
9. S3 cross-region replication
10. CloudFront

Networking

1. VPC — Virtual Private Cloud
2. VPC peering
3. Transit Gateway
4. WAF — Web Application Firewall

Databases, messaging and serverless

1. RDS
2. DynamoDB
3. SNS
4. Lambda and API Gateway

Management, automation and containers

1. CloudWatch alarms and logs
2. Systems Manager (SSM)
3. CloudFormation
4. Elastic Beanstalk
5. ECS — Elastic Container Service
6. EKS — Elastic Kubernetes Service

EKS labs

1. EKS introduction
2. EKS cluster lab setup
3. Node group operations
4. Cluster Autoscaler
5. CloudWatch logging of an EKS cluster
6. Kubernetes Dashboard on EKS
7. EBS persistent volumes
8. EFS persistent volumes

Exam preparation

1. Quizzes
2. FAQ

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