Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
The architecture exam: designing distributed systems on AWS that stay up, stay affordable, and fail in ways you planned for. It covers the ground my analytics work already sits on: storage and compute choices, VPC and IAM boundaries, and the cost and resilience tradeoffs behind a warehouse migration.
What it covers
The domains the credential examines, taken from the issuer’s own published outline, not a self-assessment.
Well-Architected FrameworkEC2 & Auto ScalingS3 & Storage ClassesVPC & NetworkingIAMRDS & RedshiftResilience & Fault ToleranceCost Optimization
Where it shows up
A credential is a floor, not a portfolio. The case studies are where this work is actually visible: the architecture, retrieval, and pipeline decisions behind them, with the measurements that back each one.