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For solutions architects
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Your certificate got you into the design review. Working architects 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 | ? | ? |
ExpertEdge
- 1Chapter 6Maximizing Value and Minimizing Cost of Multi-CloudMulti-Cloud Handbook for Developers, 2024
- 2Chapter 21Microservices Resilience, Observability, and MonitoringDesign Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles, 2023
- 3Chapter 4Dealing with Time and Technical DebtEnterprise Architecture with .NET, 2024
What's the job, really?
Six hours of meetings, then the write-up
Architecture training stops at the diagram. Your Tuesday is a security sign-off 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
Design Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles2023 · Intermediate
10:30 to 12:00
Security sign-off
The CISO reads the design
Cloud Security Handbook2025 · Intermediate
13:00 to 14:30
API review
A partner asks for v2
RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices2025 · Intermediate
15:00 to 16:30
Budget readout
The CFO wants one number
Multi-Cloud Handbook for Developers2024 · Intermediate
16:30 to 17:30
Write up the decision
Before anyone forgets
System Design Guide for Software Professionals2024 · Expert
22courses on stakeholders and influence
Who wrote it?
Written by working architects
Our experts are working architects, from API programmes to cloud security. They write about the calls you make every week.
Jean-Philippe Gouigoux
A CTO and software architect who has been a Microsoft MVP since 2011.
1 titleProfile
Is there more than exam prep?
The exam is the middle of the map
SAA-C03 gives security the biggest share. The guides for it are here, beside the AWS security specialty. 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%
9architect and security exam guides, for AWS and Azure
SCS-C02: AWS Certified Security - Specialty
5System design
40Microservices and DDD
26Distributed systems
42API design
14Cloud security
7Hybrid and multi-cloud
14Data architecture
4Enterprise architecture
146titles on the skills around the exam
80%of them start past the basics
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
By design
What we left out on purpose
Before the review
Open the chapter the night before the review. No class to book.
Your own cloud
Try the design in your own cloud. No sandbox rental on the bill.
Answers in the library
Search the trade-off, land on the course. Faster than a forum.
Past the basics
We won't explain what a VPC is. Most titles 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 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 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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