Personal notes and examples for SAP-C02 (AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional), organized by exam domain and architecture scenario. Topics are explained with many real-world examples — scenario walkthroughs in lessons and deep-dives, IaC snippets in code-examples, guided labs, and deployable patterns in personal-tests.
Entry point: course/README.md · Best reference: deep-dives/ — service guides, scenarios, and console examples
aws-solutions-architect-reference/
├── course/ ← main content
├── well-architected/ ← Well-Architected Framework reference
└── official/ ← AWS exam syllabus (domain outlines, in/out-of-scope services)
| Folder | Contents |
|---|---|
| domain-01/ … domain-04/ | Lessons mapped to the four SAP-C02 domains — concepts, scenarios, trade-offs |
| deep-dives/ | Primary reference — service and topic deep dives with scenarios, trade-offs, and console examples (VPC, S3, Organizations, IAM, migration, …). Start here for lookup. |
| cross-cutting/ | Decision guides — service picker, migration picker, exam traps, k8s lens |
| code-examples/ | Terraform, CloudFormation, and CLI examples by domain |
| labs/ | Guided hands-on exercises |
| personal-tests/ | Real-world solution examples — deployable patterns tried in a personal AWS sandbox (TGW hub-spoke, Route 53 + EKS, API Gateway, DR, …) |
Well-Architected pillars and service reference material. See TOC.
AWS-published exam outline and scope lists — source of truth for domain coverage.
Follow a domain — start at course/README.md, pick a domain, read lessons in order. Each lesson covers exam skills, concepts, a practical scenario, and links to related material.
Look up a service or pattern — start with the deep-dives index (most detailed material in the repo), then service-picker guide for quick decisions.
Compare options — cross-cutting/ has pickers for services, migration strategies, storage, and common traps.
Run examples — code-examples/ explains what each example deploys and how; labs/ walk through multi-step setups.
Kubernetes context — k8s-aws-lens.md maps AWS services to EKS/cluster concerns alongside the AWS-native answers.