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Written against: Exam SAA-C03 guide. Updated 2026-10-10.

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Learn · 3 decks · 180 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Compute & Core Services Scenario questions on Regions and AZs, the shared responsibility model, Well-Architected pillars, EC2 families and purchasing options, placement groups, EBS, EFS and FSx, load balancer types, Auto Scaling policies, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Beanstalk and CloudFront versus Global Accelerator. 10 free · 60 cards in the app Networking, Security & IAM Scenario questions on VPC design, security groups versus NACLs, peering, Transit Gateway, endpoints and PrivateLink, Direct Connect and VPN, Route 53 and CloudFront security, IAM evaluation and roles, SCPs, KMS, Secrets Manager, ACM, Cognito and the security and audit services. 10 free · 60 cards in the app Storage, Databases & Integration Scenario questions on S3 classes and features, Snow, Storage Gateway and DataSync, RDS and Aurora, DynamoDB design, ElastiCache and purpose-built databases, SQS, SNS, EventBridge and Kinesis, Step Functions, API Gateway and AppSync, Athena, Glue and EMR, and the four DR strategies. 10 free · 60 cards in the app

Drills · 1 deck · 80 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

Quick Drills: Pick the Service One-line requirement, one-line answer: name the AWS service that fits across compute, storage, databases, networking, security, integration, analytics, migration and monitoring in the SAA-C03 scope. 10 free · 80 cards in the app

Practice · 1 deck · 75 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Practice Questions Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on EC2, storage, load balancing, serverless, VPC networking, IAM and security, S3, databases, messaging and disaster recovery. 6 free · 75 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

  • Cloud Fundamentals 8
  • EC2 Instances 13
  • EC2 Purchasing Options 10
  • Block & File Storage 19
  • Auto Scaling 10
  • Load Balancing 10
  • Serverless & Containers 16
  • Edge & Global 6
  • VPC Connectivity 14
  • VPC Fundamentals 12
  • Route 53 & CloudFront 11
  • IAM 12
  • Organizations & SCPs 5
  • Encryption & Secrets 10
  • Cognito 2
  • Security Services 18
  • Logging & Monitoring 10
  • S3 21
  • Data Transfer & Hybrid Storage 9
  • Relational Databases 16
  • DynamoDB 11
  • Caching & Purpose-Built Databases 16
  • Messaging & Streaming 20
  • Application Integration 9
  • Analytics 10
  • Disaster Recovery 6
  • Compute 9
  • Data Transfer & Migration 6
  • Networking & Edge 10
  • Identity & Encryption 6

A study plan

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  • 5 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

  • Checked against the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam guide (topic list only; no text copied).
  • Checked against the AWS public documentation for EC2, EBS, EFS, FSx, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Lambda, ECS and CloudFront (reference only; no sentences reproduced).
  • Checked against the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper for the six pillars (reference only).
  • Checked against the AWS public documentation for VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, Organizations, KMS, Secrets Manager, ACM, Cognito and the security services (reference only; no sentences reproduced).
  • Checked against the AWS public documentation for S3, Storage Gateway, DataSync, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, Step Functions, API Gateway, Athena, Glue and EMR (reference only; no sentences reproduced).
  • Checked against the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper for the disaster recovery strategies (reference only).
  • Checked against the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam guide and its in-scope services list (topic list only; no text copied).
  • Checked against the AWS public documentation and product overview pages for each service named (reference only; no sentences reproduced).
  • Checked against the AWS public documentation for EC2, EBS, EFS, FSx, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Lambda, ECS, CloudFront, VPC, Route 53, IAM, Organizations, KMS, Secrets Manager, ACM, the security services, S3, Storage Gateway, DataSync, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Step Functions, API Gateway, Athena, Glue and EMR (reference only; no sentences reproduced).
  • Checked against the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper, including the Reliability Pillar for the disaster recovery strategies (reference only).

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