AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Study Notes ☁️

📖 About This Repository

This repository contains my personal study notes, diagrams, and summaries created while preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam.

I passed the exam in January 2026 with a score of 812/1000 after 1 month of intense preparation.

These notes are written in Markdown and are optimized for Obsidian, making heavy use of backlinking and tags to create a knowledge graph of AWS services.

🚀 How to Use These Notes

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/LuaGR/aws-saa-c03-notes.git

2. Open with Obsidian:
   • Download and install Obsidian.
   • Select "Open folder as vault" and choose the cloned folder.
3. Explore the Graph:
   • Check the Graph View to see how services interconnect (e.g., how S3 links to CloudFront or Lambda).

📚 Credits & Resources

These notes are a synthesis of my learning process and are heavily inspired by the following amazing resources. I highly recommend purchasing the original courses:

• Primary Course: Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) by Stephane Maarek.
  • Note: These notes follow the structure of Stephane's curriculum but represent my own understanding and phrasing.
• Practice Exams: Tutorials Dojo by Jon Bonso.

⚠️ Disclaimer & IP Notice

• No Copyrighted Material: This repository does NOT contain any screenshots of slides, proprietary images, or exact transcriptions from the Udemy course. All text is my own summary of the concepts.
• No Exam Dumps: You will not find any real exam questions or "dumps" here. Please respect the AWS Certification agreement.
• Accuracy: While I strove for accuracy, these are student notes. Always refer to the official AWS Documentation for the definitive source of truth.

🗂 Structure

The notes are organized by core AWS domains:

• IAM & Security: (Identity, KMS, WAF...)
• Compute: (EC2, Lambda, ECS, Fargate...)
• Storage: (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx...)
• Databases: (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache...)
• Networking: (VPC, Route53, CloudFront...)
• Architecture Patterns: (High Availability, Decoupling, Caching...)

👤 Author

Lua

• Software Engineer
• Reddit: u/Charming-Credit-3219

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