AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

SAA-C03

Architect secure, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud solutions on AWS. This associate-level certification validates your ability to design and deploy scalable applications using core AWS services, best practices, and the Well-Architected Framework.

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Sample AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam question

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MasterDesign Cost-Optimized Architectures

A company migrates a monolithic application to microservices using AWS Lambda. The application currently runs on 10 m5.xlarge EC2 instances (24/7) costing $5,000/month. The new Lambda architecture processes the same workload but experiences cold starts for about 10% of invocations. The team can tolerate cold starts but wants to minimize costs. Which combination of Lambda features reduces cost compared to EC2?

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Key facts about the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification and how to prepare for it.

Skills & Requirements

What you need to know before attempting the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.