AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate validates the ability to design secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized solutions on AWS using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It is intended for professionals who design cloud architectures and need to choose appropriate AWS services to meet business and technical requirements.\n\nThe SAA-C03 exam evaluates architecture decisions across security, resiliency, performance, and cost optimization. Candidates are expected to understand how common AWS compute, storage, database, networking, identity, monitoring, and serverless services work together and how to improve existing solutions.\n\nThis certification is a strong fit for professionals working toward cloud architecture and engineering roles and for experienced infrastructure practitioners moving into AWS solution design.

Recommended experience

AWS recommends at least 1 year of hands-on experience designing cloud solutions that use AWS services. Candidates should be comfortable selecting and combining AWS services to meet security, resiliency, performance, and cost requirements.

Estimated study time

80–140 hours

Target job roles

Solutions ArchitectCloud Solutions ArchitectCloud EngineerCloud ConsultantInfrastructure Engineer