AWS Solution Architect Associate course by Karishma Nikhil kochar

Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS

• What is Cloud Computing?

• Cloud Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

• Cloud Deployment Models

• Benefits of AWS

• AWS Global Infrastructure

  • Regions

  • Availability Zones

  • Edge Locations

  • AWS Pricing & Support Plans

  • AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)

    • IAM Users, Groups & Roles

    • Policies (Managed vs Inline)

    • Least Privilege Principle

    • MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)

    • IAM Best Practices

    • 3. Compute Services

      • EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

        • Instance Types

        • AMIs

        • Key Pairs & Security Groups

        • Elastic IP

      • Auto Scaling

      • Elastic Load Balancer

        • Application Load Balancer

        • Network Load Balancer

      • Lambda (Serverless Basics)

      • Storage Services

        • S3 (Simple Storage Service)

          • Buckets & Objects

          • Storage Classes

          • Versioning & Lifecycle Policies

          • Encryption

        • EBS (Elastic Block Store)

        • RDS

          • MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB

          • Backup & Multi-AZ

          • Networking & Content Delivery

            • VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

              • CIDR

              • Subnets (Public / Private)

              • Route Tables

              • Internet Gateway & NAT Gateway

            • Security Groups vs NACL

            • VPC Peering

            • VPN & Direct Connect (Overview)

            • Route 53

            • CloudFront

            • 7. Security & Compliance

              • Shared Responsibility Model

              • AWS KMS

              • Encryption at Rest & in Transit

              • AWS WAF & Shield

              • Secrets Manager

              • Compliance Programs

              • 8. Monitoring, Logging & Management

                • CloudWatch

                • CloudTrail

                  Cost Management & Optimization

                  • AWS Pricing Models

                  • EC2 Purchasing Options

                    • On-Demand

                    • Reserved

                    • Spot Instances

                  • Cost Explorer

                  • Budgets

                  • Cost Optimization Best Practices

                  • SNS

                  • EventBridge

                  • AWS SAA-C03 Exam Pattern

                  • Sample Architecture Questions

                  • Scenario-Based Questions

                  • Practice Tests