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For solutions architects
You passed the exam. Now learn the job.
Your certificate got you into the design review. Architects at AWS and Google Cloud show you how the calls get made. From $10 a month.
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Sound familiar?
In the design review, both answers are right
SAA-C03 got you into the room. Now two designs both meet the brief. Our experts wrote the chapters on choosing between them.
I care that you understand cross region latency, egress costs, and distributed systems fundamentals.
SAA-C03Question 41 of 65
Exam day
A company runs its web app on one EC2 instance. It must scale with demand and survive the loss of an Availability Zone. Which solution meets these requirements?
- AMove the app to a larger instance type
- BRun an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer
- CAttach an Elastic IP address and a CloudWatch alarm
- DLaunch the instance in a cluster placement group
Correct. Next question.
Design review · Thursday
Which one still holds in three years?
Option A
Meets the brief
- Load balancer
- ECS on Fargate
- Aurora
Option B
Meets the brief
- API Gateway
- Lambda
- DynamoDB
| Option A | Option B | |
|---|---|---|
| 1The bill at ten times the traffic | ? | ? |
| 2What breaks first | ? | ? |
| 3What it costs to change in year three | ? | ? |
What's the job, really?
Six hours of meetings, then the write-up
Architecture training stops at the diagram. Your Tuesday is a steering committee and a CFO who wants a number. The courses for that day sit in the same subscription as the AWS ones.
What to read before it
09:00 to 10:30
Design review
Platform team, A or B
Influencing, Collaboration, and Decision Making2026 · Intermediate
10:30 to 12:00
Discovery call
New customer, first call
Mastering the Art of Sales Engineering2024 · Intermediate
13:00 to 14:30
Steering committee
Migration, go or no-go
Stakeholder Management2026 · Intermediate
15:00 to 16:30
Budget readout
The CFO wants one number
How to Meet and Present to an Executive2025 · Intermediate
16:30 to 17:30
Write up the decision
Before anyone forgets
Solutions Architect's Handbook2024 · Intermediate
19courses on stakeholders and influence
Who wrote it?
Written by architects at AWS and Google Cloud
Our experts are working architects at AWS, Google Cloud and the consultancies. They write about the calls you make every week.
Is there more than exam prep?
The exam is the middle of the map
SAA-C03 tests four domains. The guides for it are here. So are the courses on what the job adds around them.
The exam blueprint
SAA-C03- Design secure architectures30%
- Design resilient architectures26%
- Design high-performing architectures24%
- Design cost-optimized architectures20%
7architect exam guides, for AWS and Azure
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Exam Guide2024
5System design
40Microservices and DDD
21Event-driven systems
17AI architecture
6Cloud cost and FinOps
6Hybrid and multi-cloud
8Data architecture
4Enterprise architecture
100titles on the skills around the exam
90%of them start past the basics
53%of them came out in 2024 or later
Where does it lead?
Every skill the role asks for, in order
Cloud courses jump from VPCs to Kafka with nothing joining them. Set Solutions Architect as your target and ExpertEdge lines up the skills it asks for, one at a time.
The exam you passed
Where you are
API Design & Development
Cloud Platforms & Deployment
Cloud Security
Data Modeling & Database Design
Emerging Technologies
Enterprise Systems Development
Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management
Software Architecture & Distributed Systems
Solutions Architect
The goal
What's the catch?
What ExpertEdge isn't
A live class
No cohort and no instructor on call. You read on your own time, before the review.
A hosted lab
No sandbox accounts to rent. You try the design in your own cloud account.
A forum
No forum or Q&A thread. The argument happens in your team's design review.
Another intro course
We won't explain what a VPC is. Most titles here start past the basics.
Keep your cert course for the exam. For everything after it, learn from architects who do the job.
And the price?
One price, everything included
Monthly
Billed monthly
$15per month
Everything, month to month. Cancel anytime.
What's included
- Every cloud and architecture title
- The whole 3,400+ course library
- Skills and a passport that stay yours
Annual
Billed yearly ($120)
$10per month
Everything for a third less, paid once a year.
What's included
- Every cloud and architecture title
- The whole 3,400+ course library
- Skills and a passport that stay yours
No setup fees, no minimum seats. Invoicing available on plans of 20+ seats or more.
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