AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Bootcamp
Overview
In this focused, hands-on bootcamp, you’ll master the core patterns, trade-offs, and design decisions that shape real AWS architectures. Through live builds, scenario walkthroughs, and applied reasoning exercises, you’ll learn to make clear, confident design choices in any AWS environment.
This session distills the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam into the critical 20% of concepts that drive 80% of success. You’ll develop the practical understanding and mental models needed to excel, whether your goal is certification or leveling up your cloud design skills for real-world systems.
Led by two AWS-certified experts, the bootcamp blends short, focused explanations with interactive exercises to help you understand not just what AWS expects from an architect, but how to think and decide like one. No fluff. No endless slides. Just the essential architecture patterns and trade-offs AWS tests repeatedly, delivered in a fast, engaging, and engineer-focused format.
What You’ll Learn to Do as an Architect
Before diving into individual services, this bootcamp builds the capabilities that define strong AWS architects:
- Make trade-offs across availability, performance, resilience, and cost
- Recognize common AWS anti-patterns and how to correct them
- Understand how services behave in real systems, not in isolation
- Apply architectural reasoning quickly, using cues from real-world and exam-style scenarios
You will learn how to:
- Learn how to design resilient, scalable, cost-smart AWS architectures, then apply the same reasoning to excel in the exam.
- Apply AWS architectural patterns in real scenarios, including VPC design, high availability, serverless, and container-based workloads
- Secure, monitor, and govern AWS environments using IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config
- Think and decide like an AWS architect, using scenario reasoning to identify keywords, eliminate distractors, and choose the best-fit solution under pressure
After this bootcamp, you will walk away with:
- A clear mental model of the entire SAA-C03 blueprint and how it maps to real AWS architectures.
- A reusable reference design for a highly available, multi-AZ workload that mirrors the architecture patterns and decision points AWS uses in scenario questions.
- Hands-on experience building and analyzing AWS environments so you can recognize the same configurations, trade-offs, and failure points that appear on the exam.
- Proven strategies for tackling scenario-based questions with speed, accuracy, and exam-day confidence.
- A two-week post-event study plan and curated resource bundle, plus 120-day access to the full recordings.
Who should attend?
This event is designed for professionals preparing to earn the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) credential. Whether you are building your foundation, sharpening your design instincts, or revising before test day, you’ll get the clarity and structure to approach the exam with confidence.
This will be perfect for:
- Aspiring Cloud Architects moving from developer, DevOps, or SRE roles who want to understand AWS design patterns and pass the SAA-C03 on their first attempt.
- Developers and Backend Engineers who build on AWS and want to strengthen their architectural reasoning while preparing for certification.
- Sysadmins, Operations, and Platform Engineers who use AWS daily and are now ready to formalize their skills through the Solutions Architect Associate exam.
- Team Leads and Technical Leads overseeing AWS projects who want a certification-backed understanding of AWS architecture principles.
- Certified or near-ready candidates seeking a structured, hands-on revision to reinforce the services, patterns, and trade-offs that appear most often in exam scenarios.
This is your complete preparation experience for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. Designed for working professionals, this bootcamp delivers comprehensive SAA-C03 preparation without the time or cost of a multi-day course. You will understand what AWS tests, practice how to think like an architect, and leave ready to pass with confidence. Get the structure, strategy, and skills you need to pass the SAA-C03 with confidence.
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- 5 hours
- Online
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Online event
Kickoff & Exam Orientation
Exam domains and weights, question styles, timeboxing, and elimination tactics.
Core Services Fast Pass
VPC (subnets, route tables, IGW vs NAT), EC2 vs ECS/EKS/Fargate, ALB/NLB, S3 vs EBS vs EFS, RDS vs Aurora vs DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, IAM basics, CloudWatch/CloudTrail/Config, KMS.
Guided Architecture Whiteboard
ALB + ASG, NAT strategy, DB choice (RDS Multi-AZ vs DynamoDB), state handling, IAM scoping, logging/monitoring.
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