AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Training Course
Length
3 days
Price
$1799
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
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Why Choose This Course
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate training is designed to help professionals learn how to design secure, resilient, high‑performing and cost‑optimised solutions on AWS, aligned to the official certification exam blueprint. The course focuses on practical architecture decisions using core AWS services, multi‑account governance patterns, identity and access controls, network segmentation, storage choices, database selection, and workload optimisation—so you can prepare effectively for the certification while gaining job‑ready skills.
Across guided workshops and hands‑on practice, you will work through real‑world scenarios that map to the exam domains: designing secure architectures, designing resilient architectures, designing high‑performing architectures, and designing cost‑optimised architectures. You will apply the AWS Well‑Architected design principles, choose appropriate services for different use cases, and review existing solutions to determine improvements—skills validated by the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate credential.
This course is suitable for those performing or moving into a solutions architect role, including those with strong on‑premises IT backgrounds who want exam‑aligned content without deep coding requirements. It is an ideal starting point for professionals in Melbourne seeking recognised cloud skills and a structured path to certification.
By the end, you will be confident making architecture trade‑offs, selecting compute, storage, networking and database options, and implementing security and cost controls that follow AWS best practices—ready to take the next step in your certification journey. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
- There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam
Candidates can achieve the AWS Certified Solutions Architect– Associate certification by passing following exam(s).
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Exam (SAA-C03)
Books
- AWS Solutions Architect- Associate course material included.
Delivery
- Instructor-led Classroom Training at our premises
- Live Virtual Online Training attend in real-time from anywhere
- In-House Training at your premises (4+ participants)
Skills Gained
- Design secure access to AWS resources using IAM users, groups, roles, policies and federated access.
- Plan multi‑account governance with service control policies and appropriate guardrails
- Architect secure workloads using VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups and network ACLs
- Implement data protection with encryption at rest and in transit using KMS and ACM
- Design scalable, loosely‑coupled, event‑driven architectures with queues, pub/sub and serverless patterns
- Select container orchestration options and workload placement using ECS, EKS and Fargate
- Build highly available and fault‑tolerant solutions across Availability Zones and Regions using load balancers and Route 53
- Choose high‑performing storage solutions (S3, EFS, EBS) based on workload characteristics.
- Determine high‑performing compute strategies using EC2, Auto Scaling and serverless services
- Select database engines and patterns (Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, caching, read replicas) to meet performance needs
- Design high‑performing network architectures with CloudFront, Global Accelerator, PrivateLink and hybrid connectivity
- Plan data ingestion and transformation with Kinesis, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena and DataSync
- Optimise cost with storage tiering, lifecycle policies, purchasing options and AWS cost management tools
- Apply disaster recovery strategies such as backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby and active‑active
- Improve observability with CloudWatch metrics and X‑Ray traces for distributed applications.
Audience
- Individuals performing a solutions architect role who want to validate their ability to design and review AWS architectures.
- Professionals with AWS Cloud or strong on‑premises IT experience seeking an exam‑aligned training course
Objectives
- Understand AWS global infrastructure and apply the shared responsibility model in solution design.
- Design secure architectures using IAM, encryption, and network segmentation best practices.
- Build highly available and fault-tolerant solutions across multiple Availability Zones and Regions.
- Select appropriate compute, storage, and database services to meet performance and scalability requirements.
- Apply cost optimisation strategies using AWS pricing models, lifecycle policies, and monitoring tools.
- Review and improve existing architectures using AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
Outline
- AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, edge services and shared responsibility
- Identity and access management: IAM design, roles, policies and MFA
- Federated access and single sign‑on with AWS IAM Identity Center
- Multi‑account governance: Control Tower and service control policies
- Network foundations: VPCs, subnets, routing, NACLs and security groups
- Inbound and outbound connectivity: NAT gateways, VPN and Direct Connect
- Private access patterns: VPC endpoints and PrivateLink.
- Edge acceleration and content delivery with CloudFront and Global Accelerator.
- Load balancing strategies: Application, Network and Gateway Load Balancers.
- Compute choices: EC2 instance families, Auto Scaling and hibernation.
- Serverless compute: Lambda patterns and event‑driven design.
- Containers: ECS, EKS and Fargate orchestration and migration considerations.
- Data protection: encryption at rest/in transit with KMS and ACM, secrets management
- Application security: Shield, WAF and Cognito authentication flows.
- Storage services: S3 classes and lifecycle, EFS, EBS and FSx selection.
- Database services: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache and RDS Proxy.
- High availability and fault tolerance patterns with Route 53 and multi‑AZ architectures.
- Observability: CloudWatch metrics/alarms and X‑Ray tracing.
- Data ingestion and analytics: Kinesis streams, Glue ETL, Lake Formation and Athena.
- Disaster recovery: RPO/RTO, backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, active‑active.
- Cost optimisation: purchasing options (Savings Plans, Reserved, Spot), cost tools (Budgets, Cost Explorer).
- Migration and data transfer: DataSync, Storage Gateway and workload layering.
- Workflow orchestration with Step Functions and decoupling with SQS/SNS.
- Reviewing and improving existing architectures based on AWS best practices.
Price
| Category | Full-Time (Weekdays) | Part-Time (Weeknights) | Part-Time (Weekends) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days | Monday to Wednesday | Mondays and Tuesdays | Saturdays only |
| Time | 9:30 am to 5:00 pm | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Duration | 3 days | 3 weeks | 3 weeks |
| Price | $1799 | $1799 | $1799 |
Terms & Conditions
The supply of this course is governed by our terms and conditions. Please read them carefully before enrolling, as enrolment is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions. Proposed course dates are given,
course runs subject to availability and minimum registrations.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Is this course aligned to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam?
Yes. The content maps to the official exam domains covering secure, resilient, high‑performing and cost‑optimised architectures on AWS.
Who should take this course?
It is intended for those performing a solutions architect role and professionals with AWS Cloud or strong on‑premises IT experience seeking exam‑aligned training.
What skills will I learn?
You will learn to design identity, network, compute, storage and database solutions; secure workloads; plan for availability and disaster recovery; and optimise cost using AWS tools and purchasing options.
Does the certification have an expiry?
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate credential is valid for three years, after which you can recertify by taking the latest version or by earning the Solutions Architect – Professional certification.
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$132,000
Average annual salary for AWS Solutions Architect certified professionals in Australia (significantly higher than the national IT average).
81%
Employers say AWS Solutions Architect certification is a preferred or required qualification for cloud architecture roles.
12.5%
Year-on-year growth in job opportunities for AWS-certified cloud professionals.
500,000+
Active AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification holders worldwide.
6,200+
Australian companies recognise or employ AWS-certified cloud architects.
97%
Student satisfaction rate from AWS Solutions Architect training programs.
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