AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, SAA-C03

Amazon Athena

A serverless, interactive analytics service. Point to your data lake in Amazon S3, define the schema, and start querying with standard SQL. Removes need for complex ETL jobs to prepare data for analysis. Out of the box integrations with AWS Glue Data Catalog.

AWS Data Exchange

Data marketplace in the cloud, including many third-party data sets.

AWS Data Pipeline

Automate data movement and transformation. A web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals. With AWS Data Pipeline, you can regularly access your data where it’s stored, transform and process it at scale, and efficiently transfer the results to AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon EMR.

Amazon EMR

Originally Elastic Map-Reduce, is used for big data processing. It's a cloud solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning.

AWS Glue

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL). A serverless data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development.

Amazon Kinesis

For real-time analytics. It cost-effectively processes and analyzes streaming data at any scale as a fully managed service. With Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data, such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data, for machine learning (ML), analytics, and other applications.

AWS Lake Formation

Build, manage, and secure data lakes easily for wide-ranging analytics.

Amazon MSK

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka provides real time analytics of streaming data.

Amazon OpenSearch Service (prev Elasticsearch)

Makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more.

Amazon QuickSight

Build visualizations and deliver insights, interactive dashboards, reports, data exploration.

Amazon Redshift

Data Warehouse tool which uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes.

Amazon AppFlow

Automate bi-directional data flows between SaaS applications (like GA, SAP, Salesforce, etc) and AWS services in just a few clicks. Supports data preparation with transformations, partitioning, and aggregation.

AWS AppSync

Creates serverless GraphQL (app-to-AWS) and Pub/Sub (AWS-to-app) APIs that simplify application development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data.

Amazon EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)

Easily build loosely coupled, event-driven architectures to help you deploy new features faster. Create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers without needing to write custom code or managing and provisioning servers. Connect AWS services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and custom applications as event producers to launch workflows.

Amazon MQ

A managed message broker service which allows software systems across different programming languages and platforms to communicate and exchange information.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Sends notifications two ways, A2A and A2P. A2A provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. These applications include Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, and other HTTPS endpoints. A2P functionality lets you send messages to your customers with SMS texts, push notifications, and email.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Lets you send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available.

• SQS standard: unlimited capacity (duplicates and wrong order may occur)

• SQS FIFO: 300 - 3000 transactions per second with batching

AWS Step Functions

A visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines.

AWS Budgets

Enables setting custom budgets to track costs and usage, as well as alerts that may trigger SNS notifications when thresholds are exceeded.

AWS Cost and Usage Report (AWS CUR)

You can review, itemize, and organize the most comprehensive cost and usage data for your account.

AWS Cost Explorer

Lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

Savings Plans

A flexible pricing model that can help you reduce your bill by up to 72% compared to On-Demand prices, in exchange for a one- or three-year hourly spend commitment. AWS offers three types of Savings Plans: Compute Savings Plans, EC2 Instance Savings Plans, and Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans.

AWS Batch

Supports running hundreds of thousands of batch and ML computing jobs while optimizing compute resources.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2)

Offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 600 instances and a choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system and purchase model. Use IP 169.254.169.254 to get metadata about running EC2 instances.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove EC2 instances using scaling policies that you define.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Deploys web applications. Basically a set of predefined configuration templates for AWS Cloudformation.

AWS Outposts

Extend AWS compute, networking, security, and other services on premises for low latency, local data processing, and data residency needs.

AWS Serverless Application Repository

A managed repository for third-party shared serverless applications.

VMware Cloud on AWS

A managed service that combines compute, network and storage capabilities in a fully supported, ready-to-run service.

AWS Wavelength

Embeds AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks, providing mobile edge computing infrastructure for developing, deploying, and scaling ultra-low-latency applications.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

A fully managed container registry which hosts Docker images in a highly available and scalable architecture, to share and deploy containers for applications reliably.

Integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Lambda and IAM, simplifying your development to production workflow.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

A fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Describe your application and the resources required, and Amazon ECS will launch, monitor, and scale your application across flexible compute options with automatic integrations to other supporting AWS services that your application needs. Perform system operations such as creating custom scaling and capacity rules, and observe and query data from application logs and telemetry.

Amazon ECS Anywhere

A feature of Amazon ECS that lets you run and manage container workloads on your infrastructure. This feature helps you meet compliance requirements and scale your business without sacrificing your on-premises investments.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

A managed Kubernetes service designed to run in the cloud and in on-premises data centers. In the cloud, automatically manages the availability and scalability of the Kubernetes control plane nodes responsible for scheduling containers, managing application availability, storing cluster data, and other key tasks. With Amazon EKS, you can take advantage of all the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure, as well as integrations with AWS networking and security services. On-premises, EKS provides a consistent, fully-supported Kubernetes solution with integrated tooling and simple deployment to AWS Outposts, virtual machines, or bare metal servers.

Amazon EKS Anywhere

Lets you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure. Amazon EKS Anywhere builds on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro and provides open-source software that’s up to date and patched so you can have an on-premises Kubernetes environment that’s more reliable than a self-managed Kubernetes offering.

Amazon EKS Distro

A Kubernetes distribution built and maintained by AWS.Makes it easier to create reliable and secure clusters.

Amazon Aurora

Relational database with unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services.

Amazon Aurora Serverless

An on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on your application's needs. You can run your database in the cloud without managing any database instances. You can also use Aurora Serverless v2 instances along with provisioned instances in your existing or new database clusters.

Amazon DocumentDB

A fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native integrations with other AWS services.

Amazon DynamoDB

A fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. Offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-region replication, in-memory caching, and data import and export tools.

Amazon ElastiCache

A fully managed, Redis- and MemcacheD-compatible service delivering real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications. It scales to hundreds of millions of operations per second with microsecond response time, and offers enterprise-grade security and reliability.

Amazon Keyspaces

Enables you to use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API code, Cassandra drivers, and developer tools that you already use. Updating applications to use Amazon Keyspaces is as easy as changing the Cassandra hostname to the Amazon Keyspaces service endpoint.

Amazon Neptune

A fully managed database service built for the cloud that makes it easier to build and run graph applications. Provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, and integrations with other AWS services.

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)

A fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log.

Amazon RDS

A collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Choose from seven popular engines — Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server — and deploy on-premises with Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. RDS Proxy is a managed connection pool for RDS.

Amazon Redshift

A data warehouse tool which uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.

Amazon Timestream

A fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database service that makes it easier to store and analyze trillions of events per day up to 1,000 times faster. Automatically scales up or down to adjust capacity and performance, so that you don’t have to manage the underlying infrastructure.

AWS X-Ray

Provides a complete view of requests as they travel through your application and filters visual data across payloads, functions, traces, services, APIs, and more with no-code and low-code motions.

AWS Amplify

A complete solution that lets frontend web and mobile developers easily build, ship, and host full-stack applications on AWS, with the flexibility to leverage the breadth of AWS services as use cases evolve. No cloud expertise needed.

Amazon API Gateway

Build RESTful APIs optimized for serverless workloads and HTTP backends using HTTP APIs. HTTP APIs are the best choice for building APIs that only require API proxy functionality. If your APIs require API proxy functionality and API management features in a single solution, API Gateway also offers REST APIs.

AWS Device Farm

Run your Selenium tests in parallel on multiple hosted versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Amazon Pinpoint

Offers marketers and developers one customizable tool to deliver customer communications across channels, segments, and campaigns at scale.

Amazon Comprehend

A natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover valuable insights and connections in text.

Amazon Forecast

A time-series forecasting service based on machine learning (ML) and built for business metrics analysis.

Amazon Fraud Detector

A fully managed service to identify potentially fraudulent online activities.

Amazon Kendra

Find accurate information faster. An intelligent enterprise search service that helps you search across different content repositories with built-in connectors.

Amazon Lex

Build chatbots and virtual agents. A fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications.

Amazon Polly

Give your apps a voice. Uses deep learning technologies to synthesize natural-sounding human speech, and to convert text to speech. Features dozens of voices and a broad set of languages.

Amazon Rekognition

Analyze images and videos. Offers pre-trained and customizable computer vision (CV) capabilities to extract information and insights from your images and videos.

Amazon SageMaker

A fully managed service to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

Amazon Textract

Extract text and data. A machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables.

Amazon Transcribe

Automate speech recognition. Automatically convert speech to text, and extract key business insights from customer calls, video files, clinical conversations, and more.

Amazon Translate

Engage audiences in every language. A neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation.

AWS Auto Scaling

Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

AWS CloudFormation

Lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code.

AWS CloudTrail

Monitors and records account activity across your AWS infrastructure, giving you control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions.

Amazon CloudWatch

Collects and visualizes real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards to streamline your infrastructure and application maintenance.

AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

A unified tool to manage your AWS services and automate them through scripts.

AWS Compute Optimizer

Helps avoid overprovisioning and underprovisioning four types of AWS resources based on your utilization data: Amazon EC2 instance types, Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon ECS services on AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda functions.

AWS Config

Continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources on AWS, on premises, and on other clouds.

AWS Control Tower

Simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization.

AWS License Manager

Makes it easier for you to manage your software licenses from vendors, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM, across AWS and your on-premises environments.

Amazon Managed Grafana

A fully managed service for Grafana analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

A Prometheus-compatible service that monitors and provides alerts on containerized applications and infrastructure at scale. The service is integrated with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.

AWS Management Console

Everything you need to access and manage the AWS Cloud in one web interface

AWS Organizations

Lets you create new AWS accounts at no additional charge. With accounts in an organization, you can easily allocate resources, group accounts, and apply governance policies to accounts or groups.

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Provides a personalized view of the AWS service status of your applications.

AWS Proton

A deployment workflow tool (CI/CD) for modern applications that helps platform and DevOps engineers achieve organizational agility.

AWS Service Catalog

Allows IT administrators to create, manage, and distribute catalogs of approved products to end users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal.

It provides central management of cloud resources to achieve governance at scale of your infrastructure as code (IaC) templates, written in CloudFormation or Terraform.

AWS Systems Manager

Allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your resources on AWS, and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

AWS Trusted Advisor

Analyzes your AWS environment and recommends actions to follow best practices.

AWS Well-Architected Tool

Designed to help you review the state of your applications and workloads against architectural best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress over time.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder -> MediaConvert (New)

Media transcoding in the cloud.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time - at any scale, as a fully managed service. With Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data, such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data, for machine learning (ML), analytics, and other applications.

AWS Application Discovery Service

Helps you plan cloud migration projects by gathering information about your on-premises data centers.

AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration)

The next generation of CloudEndure Migration. It minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS. It also simplifies application modernization with built-in and custom optimization options.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

A managed migration and replication service for databases and analytics workloads. AWS DMS supports migration between 20-plus database and analytics engines, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, MySQL to Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), Oracle to Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

AWS DataSync

A secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services. DataSync can copy data between Network File System (NFS) shares, Server Message Block (SMB) shares, Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), self-managed object storage, AWS Snowcone, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems, Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems, Amazon FSz for OpenZFS file systems, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems.

AWS Migration Hub

Provides a central location to collect server and application inventory data for the assessment, planning, and tracking of migrations to AWS. Migration Hub can also help accelerate application modernization following migration.

AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS)

Migrate any workload – applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers – and even entire data centers from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other public cloud to AWS.

AWS Snow Family

Snowcone, Snowball and Snowmobile are purpose-built devices to cost-effectively move petabytes of data, offline. Lease a Snow device to move your data to the cloud. Capacity:

• Snowcone: 22TB

• Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 80: 81 TB

• Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210: 210 TB

• Snowball Edge Compute Optimized: 28 TB

• Snowmobile: 100 PB

AWS Transfer Family

Securely scales your recurring business-to-business file transfers to AWS Storage services using SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2 protocols.

Amazon CloudFront

A content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience.

AWS Direct Connect

Link on-premises and AWS networks, extend your existing network. Use SiteLink to send data between your locations.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets in one or more Availability Zones (AZs), but not across Regions.

OSI Layers:

• Application Load Balancer [Layer 7] (Application, e g http)

• Network Load Balancer [Layer 4] (Transport, e g TCP, UDP, for extreme performance/low latency applications)

• Gateway Load Balancer [Layer 3-4] (Network, Transport, for third-party virtual appliances)

With VPC endpoints, the routing between the VPC and Elastic Load Balancing APIs is handled by the AWS network without the need for an Internet gateway, NAT gateway, or VPN connection. The latest generation of VPC Endpoints used by Elastic Load Balancing are powered by AWS PrivateLink, connecting AWS services using Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) with private IPs in your VPCs.

AWS Global Accelerator

A networking service that helps improve the availability, performance, and security of public AWS applications. Global Accelerator provides two global static public IPs that act as a fixed entry point to application endpoints, such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, and elastic IPs.

AWS PrivateLink

The feature that powers VPC endpoints. PrivateLink provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), supported AWS services, and your on-premises networks without exposing your traffic to the public internet. Interface VPC endpoints, powered by PrivateLink, connect you to services hosted by AWS Partners and supported solutions available in AWS Marketplace.

Amazon Route 53

A highly available and scalable DNS (Domain Name System) service. It connects user requests to internet applications running on AWS or on-premises, performs health checks of those applications, and can be used for DNS failover.

AWS Transit Gateway

It connects Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub - like a highly scalable cloud router.

Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

This gives you full control over your virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security. Secure and monitor connections, screen traffic, and restrict instance access inside your virtual network. VPCs can communicate with each other across accounts, Availability Zones, or AWS Regions.

VPC Components

• Subnet: A segment of a VPC’s IP address range where you can place groups of isolated resources.

• Internet Gateway: The Amazon VPC side of a connection to the public Internet.

• NAT Gateway: A highly available, managed Network Address Translation (NAT) service for your resources in a private subnet to access the Internet.

• Virtual private gateway: The Amazon VPC side of a VPN connection.

• Peering Connection: A peering connection enables you to route traffic via private IP addresses between two peered VPCs.

• VPC Endpoints: Enables private connectivity to services hosted in AWS (Privatelink), from within your VPC without using an Internet Gateway, VPN, Network Address Translation (NAT) devices, or firewall proxies.

• Egress-only Internet Gateway: A stateful gateway to provide egress only access for IPv6 traffic from the VPC to the Internet.