AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Course Description

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification validates advanced technical expertise in designing distributed applications and systems on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. This course prepares you for the SAP-C02 certification exam, covering advanced topics like hybrid architecture, cost optimization, security controls, high availability, disaster recovery, and automation.

Through a combination of real-world architectural scenarios, hands-on labs, and case study analysis, you’ll learn how to craft robust, scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud solutions for enterprise-level use cases. This training is ideal for professionals aiming to lead cloud transformation projects or architect mission-critical systems on AWS.

Certification

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) demonstrates your ability to:

• Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications

• Select appropriate AWS services to design and implement enterprise-level solutions

• Optimize cloud architecture for performance, cost, and compliance

• Manage complex migration and hybrid environments

Prerequisites:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (recommended but not mandatory)

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS

Who This Course is For

• Experienced Solutions Architects and Cloud Engineers

• Technical Leads and DevOps Professionals

• IT Managers and Enterprise Architects

• Professionals preparing for the AWS SAP-C02 certification exam

What You’ll Learn

Advanced Architectural Design

• Designing multi-tier, loosely coupled architectures

• Building scalable microservices and event-driven solutions

• Choosing compute strategies: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda

Resiliency, Scalability & Performance

• Designing for high availability and disaster recovery

• Auto Scaling groups, ELB, Route 53, and Global Accelerator

• Performance tuning for databases, caching, and networking

Security & Compliance

• Designing secure access with IAM, KMS, Cognito, and GuardDuty

• Integrating compliance controls (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC)

• Managing encryption at rest and in transit

Migration & Hybrid Cloud Architecture

• Planning and executing complex migrations using DMS, SMS, and Snow Family

• Hybrid connectivity with Direct Connect, VPN, and Transit Gateway

• Designing architectures across on-prem and AWS environments

Cost Optimization & Governance

• Designing cost-effective solutions with AWS Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer

• Right-sizing compute, storage, and database services

• Using Organizations, SCPs, and budgets for governance

Automation & Monitoring

• Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation and Terraform

• CI/CD and DevOps integration with CodePipeline, CodeDeploy

• Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config

Tools & Services Covered

• EC2, Lambda, Auto Scaling, ELB, VPC, Route 53

• S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, Glacier, Storage Gateway

• RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, ElastiCache

• IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Shield, WAF

• CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, Config

• AWS Organizations, Budgets, Trusted Advisor

Course Outcomes

• Full preparation for the AWS SAP-C02 certification exam

• Ability to design end-to-end solutions for large-scale cloud environments

• Skills to optimize performance, cost, security, and resilience in AWS

• Readiness to lead cloud initiatives at an enterprise level