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⭐Course Content ⭐

☁️ Introduction
🎤 Meet your Instructor
🎤 Exam Guide Overview
🎤 Why Get the Solutions Architect Associate

☁️ S3
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Storage Classes
🎤 Storage Class Comparsion
🎤 Security
🎤 Encryption
🎤 Data Consistency
🎤 Cross-Region Replication
🎤 Versioning
🎤 Lifecycle Management
🎤 Transfer Acceleration
🎤 Presigned URLs
🎤 MFA Delete
⌨️ Follow Along - Create & Delete a Bucket
⌨️ Follow Along - Upload Files & Make Public
⌨️ Follow Along - Versioning
⌨️ Follow Along - Encryption
⌨️ Follow Along - CLI
⌨️ Follow Along - Lifecycle Policies
⌨️ Follow Along - Cross Region Replication
⌨️ Follow Along - Bucket Policies

☁️ Snowball
🎤 Snowballl
🎤 Snowball Edge
🎤 Snowmobile

☁️ VPC
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Core Components
🎤 Key Features
🎤 Default VPC
🎤 Default Everywhere IP
🎤 VPC Peering
🎤 Route Tables
🎤 Internet Gateway
🎤 Bastions / Jumpbox
🎤 Direct Connect

☁️ VPC Endpoints
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Interface Endpoints
🎤 Gateway Endpoints
📓 Cheatsheet

☁️ VPC Flow Logs
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Log Breakdown
📓 Cheatsheet

☁️ NACL
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Use Case
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ Security Groups
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Use Cases
🎤 Limits
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ NAT
🎤 Introduction
🎤 NAT Instances vs NAT Gateways
📓 Cheatsheet

☁️ VPC Follow Along
⌨️ Create VPC, IGW, Route Tables and Subnets
⌨️ Launch an EC2 Instance
⌨️ Groups, NACL and Bastion
⌨️ NAT
⌨️ VPC Endpoints
⌨️ Flow Logs
⌨️ Cleanup

☁️ IAM
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Core Components
🎤 Types of Policies
🎤 Policy Structure
🎤 Password Policy
🎤 Access Keys
🎤 Mulit Factor Authenication
⌨️ Follow Along - IAM
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ Cognito
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Web Identity Federation
🎤 User Pools
🎤 Identity Pools
🎤 Sync
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ AWS CLI & SDK
🎤 Command Line Interface (CLI)
🎤 Software Development Kit (SDK)
🎤 Programmatic Access
⌨️ Follow Along - Cloud 9 and CLI Setup
⌨️ Follow Along - CLI
⌨️ Follow Along - SDK
📓 CLI & SDK Cheat Sheet

☁️ DNS
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Internet Protocol (IP)
🎤 Domain Registrars
🎤 Top-Level Domains
🎤 Start of Authority (SOA)
🎤 A Records
🎤 CNAME Records
🎤 NS Records
🎤 Time To Live (TTL)
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ Route 53
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Use Case
🎤 Record Sets
🎤 Routing Policies
🎤 Simple Routing Policies
🎤 Weighted Routing Policies
🎤 Latency Based Routing
🎤 Failover Routing Policies
🎤 Geolocation Routing Policies
🎤 Geoproximity Routing Policies
🎤 Multi-Value Answer Policies
🎤 Health Checks
🎤 Resolver
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ EC2
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Instance Types
🎤 Instance Sizes
🎤 Instance Profiles
🎤 Placement Groups
🎤 Userdata
🎤 Metadata
📓 EC2 Cheat Sheet

☁️ EC2 - Pricing
🎤 Introduction
🎤 On-Demand Instances
🎤 Reserved Instances
🎤 Spot Instances
🎤 Dedicated Host Instances
📓 EC2 Pricing Cheat Sheet

☁️ AMI
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Use Cases
🎤 Marketplace
🎤 Choosing an AMI
🎤 Create an AMI
🎤 Coping an AMI
📓 AMI Cheat Sheet

☁️ Auto Scaling Groups
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Capacity Settings
🎤 Health Check Replacements
🎤 Scaling Policies
🎤 ELB Integration
🎤 Use Case
🎤 Launch Configuration
📓 Autoscaling Groups Cheat Sheet

☁️ ELB
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Rules of Traffic
🎤 Application Load Balancer (ALB)
🎤 Network Load Balancer (NLB)
🎤 Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
🎤 Sticky Sessions
🎤 X-Forwarded-For Header
🎤 Health Checks
🎤 Cross-Zone Load Balancing
🎤 Request Routing
📓 ELB Cheat Sheet

☁️ EC2 Follow Along
⌨️ Launching an Instance
⌨️ Encrypted Snapshots
⌨️ Creating an AMI
⌨️ Working with ASGs
⌨️ Register a Domain

☁️ Elastic File System (EFS)
🎤 Introduction
⌨️ Follow Along - Mounting EFS
📓 EFS Cheat Sheet

☁️ Elastic Block Store (EBS)
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Volume Types
🎤 Medium HDD
🎤 Medium SSD
🎤 Magnetic Tapes
🎤 Moving Volumes
🎤 Encrypted Root Volumes
🎤 EBS vs Instance Store Volumes
📓 EBS Cheat Sheet

☁️ CloudFront
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Core Components
🎤 Distributions
🎤 Lambda@Edge
🎤 Protection
⌨️ Follow Along - Create a Distribution
⌨️ Follow Along - Serve S3 Files From Distribution
⌨️ Follow Along - Create an Invalidation
📓 CloudFront Cheat Sheet

☁️ RDS
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Encryption
🎤 Backups
🎤 Restoring Backups
🎤 Multi-AZ
🎤 Read Replicas
⌨️ Follow Along - Create an Instance
⌨️ Follow Along - Performance Insights
⌨️ Follow Along - Reserved Instances
⌨️ Follow Along - Working with Snapshots
⌨️ Follow Along - Aurora Serverless
📓 RDS Cheat Sheet

☁️ Aurora
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Scaling
🎤 Availability
🎤 Fault Tolerance & Durability
🎤 Replicas
🎤 Serverless
📓 Aurora Cheat Sheet

☁️ Redshift
🎤 Redshift

☁️ DynamoDB
🎤Introduction
🎤Table Structure
🎤Consistent Reads
📓 DynamoDB Cheat Sheet

☁️ CloudFormation
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Template Formats
🎤 Template Anatomy
🎤 QuickStarts
📓 CloudFormation Cheat Sheet

☁️ CloudWatch
🎤 Introduction
🎤 CloudWatch Logs
🎤 CloudWatch Metrics
🎤 Custom Metrics
🎤 CloudWatch Events
🎤 CloudWatch Alarms
🎤 CloudWatch Dashboards
🎤 Availability
🎤 Agent & Host Level Metrics
⌨️ CloudWatch Follow Along
📓 CloudWatch Cheat Sheet

☁️ CloudTrail
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Event History
🎤 Trail Options
🎤 CloudTrail to CloudWatch
🎤 Management vs Data Events
⌨️ Follow Along - CloudTrail Overview
⌨️ Follow Along - Create a Trail
⌨️ Follow Along - CloudTrail to CloudWatch
⌨️ Follow Along - Athena
📓 CloudTrail Cheat Sheet

☁️ Lambda
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Use Cases
🎤 Pricing
🎤 Triggers
🎤 Interface
🎤 Defaults and Limits
🎤 Cold Starts
📓 Lambda Cheat Sheet

☁️ SQS
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Use Case
🎤 Limits & Retention
🎤 Queue Types
🎤 Visibility Timeout
🎤 Short vs Long Polling
📓 SQS Cheat Sheet

☁️ SNS
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Topics
🎤 Subscriptions
🎤 Application As Subscriber
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ ElastiCache
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Caching Comparison
📓 ElastiCache Cheat Sheet

☁️ High Availability (HA)

🎤 High Availability (HA)
🎤 Scale Up and Scale Out

☁️ Elastic Beanstalk
🎤 Introduction
⌨️ Follow Along - Overview
⌨️ Follow Along - Prepare Archive
⌨️ Follow Along - Upload Archive
⌨️ Follow Along - Create a Web App
⌨️ Follow Along - Cleanup
📓 Cheat Sheet

__☁️ API Gateway_
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Key Features
🎤 Configuration Part 1
🎤 Configuration Part 2
🎤 Configuration Part 3
🎤 Caching
🎤 CORS
🎤 Same Origin Policy
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ Kinesis
🎤 Introduction
🎤 Data Streams
🎤 Data Analytics
🎤 Video Streams
🎤 Firehose
📓 Cheat Sheet

☁️ Serverless Follow Along
⌨️ Follow Along - Overview
⌨️ Follow Along - Setup Bucket
⌨️ Follow Along - SNS
⌨️ Follow Along - DynamoDB
⌨️ Follow Along - ACM, CloudFront, Route53
⌨️ Follow Along - Cloud 9 and Review Lambda
⌨️ Follow Along - Create and Test Lambda
⌨️ Follow Along - API Gateway
⌨️ Follow Along - Testing Production
⌨️ Follow Along - Cleanup