The cloud computing industry is booming, and with it comes the ever-growing demand for skilled professionals who can design, deploy, and manage complex cloud solutions. Earning the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) certification validates your expertise in this field, making you a highly sought-after commodity in today’s job market.
What is the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) exam?
The SAP-C02 exam is designed for experienced solutions architects who possess a deep understanding of AWS services and the ability to design secure, performant, and cost-optimized cloud solutions. It validates your proficiency in applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework across various aspects of cloud architecture, including:
- Designing for security
- Designing for high availability and scalability
- Designing for performance efficiency
- Designing for cost optimization
- Designing for operational excellence
Why is the SAP-C02 important?
Earning the SAP-C02 certification demonstrates your advanced knowledge and skills in crafting robust cloud solutions on the AWS platform. Here’s how it benefits you:
- Career advancement: The SAP-C02 certification is a highly respected credential that can open doors to new career opportunities and promotions within the cloud computing domain.
- Increased marketability: The certification validates your expertise and makes you a standout candidate in a competitive job market.
- Enhanced credibility: The SAP-C02 signifies your in-depth knowledge of AWS, making you a trusted advisor to clients and employers.
- Salary boost: Studies have shown that AWS certifications can lead to significant salary increases.
Who should consider taking the SAP-C02 exam?
The SAP-C02 is ideal for:
- Solutions Architects with experience designing and implementing cloud solutions on AWS
- IT professionals seeking to validate their AWS expertise and advance their careers
- Cloud enthusiasts who want to gain a deeper understanding of AWS architecture best practices
How to prepare for the SAP-C02 exam
There are several resources available to help you prepare for the SAP-C02 exam, including:
- AWS official training materials: AWS offers a comprehensive suite of courses and resources designed to help you prepare for the exam.
- Practice exams: Taking practice exams can familiarize you with the exam format and question styles.
- Online communities: Joining online communities dedicated to AWS certifications can provide valuable insights and peer support.
By investing in your preparation and acquiring the SAP-C02 certification, you’ll be well-positioned to thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing. So, take the first step towards conquering the cloud and embark on your journey to becoming a certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional.
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Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
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Architect network connectivity strategies.
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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AWS networking concepts (for example, Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, AWS VPN, transitive routing, AWS container services)
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Hybrid DNS concepts (for example, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, on-premises DNS integration)
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Network segmentation (for example, subnetting, IP addressing, connectivity among VPCs)
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Network traffic monitoring
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Evaluating connectivity options for multiple VPCs
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Evaluating connectivity options for on-premises, co-location, and cloud integration
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Selecting AWS Regions and Availability Zones based on network and latency requirements
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Troubleshooting traffic flows by using AWS tools
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Using service endpoints for service integrations
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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Prescribe security controls.
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)
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Route tables, security groups, and network ACLs
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Encryption keys and certificate management (for example, AWS Key Management Service [AWS KMS], AWS Certificate Manager [ACM])
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AWS security, identity, and compliance tools (for example, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Inspector)
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Evaluating cross-account access management
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Integrating with third-party identity providers
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Deploying encryption strategies for data at rest and data in transit
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Developing a strategy for centralized security event notifications and auditing
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)
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Design reliable and resilient architectures.
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Recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs)
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Disaster recovery strategies (for example, using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site)
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Data backup and restoration
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Designing disaster recovery solutions based on RTO and RPO requirements
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Implementing architectures to automatically recover from failure
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Developing the optimal architecture by considering scale-up and scale-out options
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Designing an effective backup and restoration strategy
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Recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs)
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Design a multiaccount AWS environment.
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AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower
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Multi-account event notifications
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AWS resource sharing across environments
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Evaluating the most appropriate account structure for organizational requirements
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Recommending a strategy for central logging and event notifications
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Developing a multi-account governance model
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AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower
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Determine cost optimization and visibility strategies.
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AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (for example, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets)
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AWS purchasing options (for example, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances)
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AWS rightsizing visibility tools (for example, AWS Compute Optimizer, Amazon S3 Storage Lens)
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Monitoring cost and usage with AWS tools
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Developing an effective tagging strategy that maps costs to business units
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Understanding how purchasing options affect cost and performance
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AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (for example, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets)
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Design for New Solutions
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Design a deployment strategy to meet business requirements.
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Infrastructure as code (IaC) (for example, AWS CloudFormation)
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Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
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Change management processes
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Configuration management tools (for example, AWS Systems Manager)
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Determining an application or upgrade path for new services and features
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Selecting services to develop deployment strategies and implement appropriate rollback mechanisms
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Adopting managed services as needed to reduce infrastructure provisioning and patching overhead
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Making advanced technologies accessible by delegating complex development and deployment tasks to AWS
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Infrastructure as code (IaC) (for example, AWS CloudFormation)
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Design a solution to ensure business continuity.
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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AWS networking concepts (for example, Route 53, routing methods)
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RTOs and RPOs
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Disaster recovery scenarios (for example, backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site)
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Disaster recovery solutions on AWS
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Configuring disaster recovery solutions
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Configuring data and database replication
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Performing disaster recovery testing
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Architecting a backup solution that is automated, is cost-effective, and supports business continuity across multiple Availability Zones or Regions
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Designing an architecture that provides application and infrastructure availability in the event of a disruption
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Using processes and components for centralized monitoring to proactively recover from system failures
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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Determine security controls based on requirements.
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IAM
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Route tables, security groups, and network ACLs
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Encryption options for data at rest and data in transit
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AWS service endpoints
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Credential management services
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AWS managed security services (for example, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub)
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Specifying IAM users and IAM roles that adhere to the principle of least privilege access
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Specifying inbound and outbound network flows by using security group rules and network ACL rules
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Developing attack mitigation strategies for large-scale web applications
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Developing encryption strategies for data at rest and data in transit
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Specifying service endpoints for service integrations
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Developing strategies for patch management to remain compliant with organizational standards
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IAM
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Design a strategy to meet reliability requirements.
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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AWS storage services and replication strategies (for example Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache)
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Multi-AZ and multi-Region architectures
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Auto scaling policies and events
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Application integration (for example, Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS], Amazon Simple Queue Service [Amazon SQS], AWS Step Functions)
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Service quotas and limits
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Designing highly available application environments based on business requirements
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Using advanced techniques to design for failure and ensure seamless system recoverability
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Implementing loosely coupled dependencies
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Operating and maintaining high-availability architectures (for example, application failovers, database failovers)
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Using AWS managed services for high availability
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Implementing DNS routing policies (for example, Route 53 latency-based routing, geolocation routing, simple routing)
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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Design a solution to meet performance objectives.
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Performance monitoring technologies
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Storage options on AWS
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Instance families and use cases
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Purpose-built databases
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Designing large-scale application architectures for a variety of access patterns
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Designing an elastic architecture based on business objectives
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Applying design patterns to meet performance objectives with caching, buffering, and replicas
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Developing a process methodology for selecting purpose-built services for required tasks
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Designing a rightsizing strategy
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Performance monitoring technologies
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Determine a cost optimization strategy to meet solution goals and objectives.
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AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (for example, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator)
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Pricing models (for example, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
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Storage tiering
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Data transfer costs
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AWS managed service offerings
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Identifying opportunities to select and rightsize infrastructure for cost-effective resources
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Identifying appropriate pricing models
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Performing data transfer modeling and selecting services to reduce data transfer costs
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Developing a strategy and implementing controls for expenditure and usage awareness
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AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (for example, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator)
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Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
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Determine a strategy to improve overall operational excellence.
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Alerting and automatic remediation strategies
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Disaster recovery planning
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Monitoring and logging solutions (for example, Amazon CloudWatch)
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CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (for example, blue/green, all-at-once, rolling)
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Configuration management tools (for example, Systems Manager)
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Determining the most appropriate logging and monitoring strategy
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Evaluating current deployment processes for improvement opportunities
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Prioritizing opportunities for automation within a solution stack
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Recommending the appropriate AWS solution to enable configuration management automation
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Engineering failure scenario activities to support and exercise an understanding of recovery actions
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Alerting and automatic remediation strategies
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Determine a strategy to improve security.
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Data retention, data sensitivity, and data regulatory requirements
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Automated monitoring and remediation strategies (for example, AWS Config rules)
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Secrets management (for example, Systems Manager, AWS Secrets Manager)
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Principle of least privilege access
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Security-specific AWS solutions
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Patching practices
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Backup practices and methods
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Evaluating a strategy for the secure management of secrets and credentials
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Auditing an environment for least privilege access
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Reviewing implemented solutions to ensure security at every layer
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Reviewing comprehensive traceability of users and services
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Prioritizing automated responses to the detection of vulnerabilities
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Designing and implementing a patch and update process
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Designing and implementing a backup process
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Employing remediation techniques
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Data retention, data sensitivity, and data regulatory requirements
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Determine a strategy to improve performance.
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High-performing systems architectures (for example, auto scaling, instance fleets, placement groups)
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Global service offerings (for example, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, edge computing services)
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Monitoring tool sets and services (for example, CloudWatch)
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Service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs)
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Translating business requirements to measurable metrics
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Testing potential remediation solutions and making recommendations
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Proposing opportunities for the adoption of new technologies and managed services
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Assessing solutions and applying rightsizing based on requirements
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Identifying and examining performance bottlenecks
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High-performing systems architectures (for example, auto scaling, instance fleets, placement groups)
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Determine a strategy to improve reliability.
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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Data replication methods
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Scaling methodologies (for example, load balancing, auto scaling)
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High availability and resiliency
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Disaster recovery methods and tools
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Service quotas and limits
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Understanding application growth and usage trends
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Evaluating existing architecture to determine areas that are not sufficiently reliable
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Remediating single points of failure
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Enabling data replication, self-healing, and elastic features and services
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AWS Global Infrastructure
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Identify opportunities for cost optimizations.
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Cost-conscious architecture choices (for example, using Spot Instances, scaling policies, and rightsizing resources)
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Price model adoptions (for example, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans)
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Networking and data transfer costs
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Cost management, alerting, and reporting
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Analyzing usage reports to identify underutilized and overutilized resources
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Using AWS solutions to identify unused resources
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Designing billing alarms based on expected usage patterns
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Investigating AWS Cost and Usage Reports at a granular level
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Using tagging for cost allocation and reporting
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Cost-conscious architecture choices (for example, using Spot Instances, scaling policies, and rightsizing resources)
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Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
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Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration.
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Migration assessment and tracking tools (for example, AWS Migration Hub)
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Portfolio assessment
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Asset planning
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Prioritization and migration of workloads (for example, wave planning)
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Completing an application migration assessment
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Evaluating applications according to the seven common migration strategies (7Rs)
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Evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO)
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Migration assessment and tracking tools (for example, AWS Migration Hub)
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Determine the optimal migration approach for existing workloads.
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Data migration options and tools (for example, AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family, AWS Snow Family, S3 Transfer Acceleration)
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Application migration tools (for example, AWS Application Discovery Service, AWS Application Migration Service)
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AWS networking services and DNS (for example, Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, Route 53)
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Identity services (for example, IAM Identity Center, AWS Directory Service)
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Database migration tools (for example, AWS Database Migration Service [AWS DMS], AWS Schema Conversion Tool [AWS SCT])
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Governance tools (for example, AWS Control Tower, Organizations)
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Selecting the appropriate database transfer mechanism
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Selecting the appropriate application transfer mechanism
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Selecting the appropriate data transfer service and migration strategy
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Applying the appropriate security methods to migration tools
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Selecting the appropriate governance model
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Data migration options and tools (for example, AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family, AWS Snow Family, S3 Transfer Acceleration)
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Determine a new architecture for existing workloads.
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Compute services (for example, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk)
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Containers (for example, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS], AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry [Amazon ECR])
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AWS storage services (for example, Amazon Elastic Block Store [Amazon EBS], Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Amazon FSx, Amazon S3, Volume Gateway)
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Compute services (for example, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk)
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Determine opportunities for modernization and enhancements.
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