AWS Backup Audit Manager adds a new control that you can use to audit and report on the recovery point objective (RPO) of your backups. With this launch, you can now specify your organizational recovery point objectives for your resources and evaluate whether your recovery points are in compliance.

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service. MemoryDB is a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database that provides low latency, high throughput, and durability at any scale.

Starting today, you can now bring your own development environment in a custom image to RStudio on Amazon SageMaker. RStudio on SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. You can quickly launch the familiar RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even switch to programming using Python on Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks. All your work, including code, datasets, repositories, and other artifacts are synchronized between the two environments. You can bring your current RStudio license to Amazon SageMaker at no additional charge to quickly get started.

Amazon QuickSight now enables authors to setup rolling date to dynamically generate dashboard for end users. The rolling date functionality is now available for both date & time range filters and datetime parameters. Users will be able to set up rolling rules to fetch a date, such as today, yesterday, or different combinations of (start/end) of (this/previous/next) (year/quarter/month/week/day) and dynamically update the dashboard content based on when the dashboard is loaded. This feature brings flexibility and simplicity for users to build time-related dashboards. Without rolling date, users have to set up a static date and manually change it as needed. For further details, visit here.

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Dublin, Ireland. AWS customers in Ireland and across Europe can now establish network connections from their premises to AWS in the Servecentric, Blanchardstown Corporate Park data center to gain high-performance, secure access to all public AWS Regions (except Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD). This is the third Direct Connect location in the Dublin metropolitan area.

Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces support for streaming over UDP, when using the Windows native client. Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed service that provides non-persistent desktops, and application streaming products to end-users. Previously, you were able to stream over TCP via Windows native client. With your end users now working from home or in different countries compared to your corporate offices, they may operate in sub-optimal network conditions you are unable to control. These network conditions can impact your end users experience and productivity. With UDP streaming your end users will experience a more responsive streaming quality in sub-optimal network conditions, with higher round trip latency.

i’m looking into getting into AmazonAWS!what is a good recommendation youtube/youtuber to watch or how to go about getting into AWS! how should i got about it what route should i take? i have zero IT experience, so anytime will help gladly appreciate the community submitted by /u/Pristine-View-7894 [link] [comments]

Developers can now access Amazon CloudWatch Logs within Visual Studio using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. Directly from the IDE, it is now possible to search and filter log groups, log streams, and events. Additionally, log groups can be accessed from their associated resources, and log events can be downloaded to a file.

The AWS Snowcone solid state drive (SSD) device is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region, adding to our growing list of Regions already offering Snowcone SSD, including AWS US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California) Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo).

AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List.

NICE DCV version 2022.1 introduces performance improvements and multiple new features, such as support for Rocky Linux 8.5 and Ubuntu 22.04 servers. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports presigned URLs for granting time-limited access to objects stored locally on an Outpost. S3 on Outposts bucket owners can now more easily share objects with individuals in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

You can now use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) for use cases that are subject to System and Organization Controls (SOC) reporting. You can also now install the AWS Application Migration Service agent on your source servers using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) temporary security credentials with limited permissions. AWS Application Migration Service allows you to quickly migrate and modernize applications on AWS.

Amazon QuickSight launches a suite of functions called Level Aware Calculations (LAC). The new calculation enables customers to specify the level of granularity that they want the window functions (in what window to partition by) or aggregate functions (at what level to group by) to be conducted. This brings flexibility and simplification for users to build some advanced calculations and powerful analyses. Without LAC, user will have to prepare pre-aggregated tables in their original data source, or run queries in the data prep phase to enable those calculations. For further details, visit here.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) region. You can now deploy AppStream 2.0 for your active workloads, as well as to meet your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity needs. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances to meet the needs of your users.

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning practitioners get started on training and deploying machine learning models quickly. These algorithms and models can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data including tabular, image, and text.

Starting today, you can use Amazon EC2 placement groups to spread instances across distinct hosts on an AWS Outposts rack. Host-level spread placement groups distribute instances across hosts to reduce the likelihood of correlated failures, benefiting workloads that require High Availability (HA) like mission-critical databases.

Amazon GameLift now offers a new console experience that provides a more intuitive way to manage and scale your game servers on AWS. The redesigned console has new left-hand navigation that makes it easy to switch between various GameLift features such as managing and creating builds, scripts, fleets, FlexMatch, and includes helpful resource links like “Prepare to launch”, and service quotas. The new interface will make it quicker and easier to configure and manage your game server instances by providing a view of all your settings in one location.

AWS DataSync now supports copying files to and from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a storage service that allows customers to launch and run fully managed ONTAP file systems in the cloud. Using AWS DataSync, you can quickly and securely migrate your data from your on-premises storage, the edge, or other clouds to your FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems running in AWS. You can also use DataSync to move data between your FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system and Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon EFS file systems, or other Amazon FSx file systems.

Amazon RDS now allows you to have up to 20 concurrent snapshot copy requests per destination region per account, an increase from the former limit of five concurrent copies per destination region per account.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of 4 male Neural TTS voices: Liam for Canadian French, Arthur for UK English, Daniel for German and Pedro for US Spanish.

AWS Glue streaming ETL (Extract Transform and Load) can now detect compressed data streaming from Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), and self managed Apache Kafka. It can then automatically decompresses this data without customers having to write code, saving them development hours. AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs continuously consume data from streaming sources, cleans and transforms the data in-flight, and makes it available for analysis in seconds. Customers compress data prior to streaming in-order to improve performance and to avoid throttling limits by Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK. Prior to this feature, customers had to write user defined functions to uncompress data from a stream, which is time consuming.

As of today, you can experience the new interface for creating support cases in the AWS Support Center console. When you create a case, Support Center can better anticipate and understand your issue by capturing your case details. Support Center can then provide targeted and specific remediation, such as answers to frequently asked questions and links for related information.

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Cloud practitioner practise tool I've found it useful, so I've polished it up a little and here it is. I usually do a session of 40-50 questions, then study the stuff that the report says I'm rubbish at! The drill mode is especially harsh in exposing what I do and don't know. Fill yer boots. submitted by /u/justajolt [link] [comments]

Just received an Email from AWS as a SR cloud support engineer, I don't remember applying for a SR position. I was aiming for an entry level . What do I do? submitted by /u/PuzzleheadedSet3615 [link] [comments]

Hello fellow exam takers! Regarding SAA-C02: are any materials (personal notes for example) are allowed to be used during the test? or am I to rely on my memory only? I could not find any mentions of it in the documentation. Thanks! submitted by /u/cult_of_me [link] [comments]

I just took the cloud practitioner test. I feel really confident about it. I find the test surprisingly easy. But since the test is easy, I need to get more questions correct to pass. When I took Udemy tests, I only passed 3/6 so I’m worried that my confidence is misplaced. It sucks that I have to wait for results. I only used a cloud guru as a resource. I took practice tests on Udemy but didn’t take any courses on there. submitted by /u/PacePossible1408 [link] [comments]

I scheduled an exam with Pearson VUE I ran the system requirements TWICE, once on the day I registered and 30 minutes before the exam. I was given the green light to just check in on the exam date but the day arrived and I couldn't check-in. I am confused regarding the start time I don't know if it's local time or some other time zone I scheduled it for 9:45 p.m. and I was checking in at 9:15 as per the instructions and no matter how many times I ran the software I could not check-in. Is " Etc/GMT+8 - GMT-08:00" another time zone? is it EST? I had to reschedule and luckily I was able to for tomorrow. I am concerned I am going to run into the same issue again can someone who's taken the exam with Pearson VUE please let me know if you ran into the same issue and or what I can do to not run into this issue tomorrow. submitted by /u/johnsmithx0 [link] [comments]

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I recently passed the CCP and am moving on to SAA. I hope to take and pass the exam by August 30th which is the last date for the current C02 exam and wanted to start prepping by choosing a course that would get me a good understanding of the material. I have fairly basic AWS experience in my work and took Maarek's CCP course which gave me a good understanding of the basics. I've also already purchased the TD/Boso SAA test prep course. What course would you recommend me to take to get a good understanding of the material and pass the SAA before the new exam comes out? submitted by /u/um_rr [link] [comments]

For those that have studied for SAA on ACG, how up to date is the course? Couldn’t easily find when it was made. 2021 or 2022 or whatever. Is it worth spending time on it vs just the Cantrill course? submitted by /u/TranceSoulBrother [link] [comments]

Wanted to jot something down whilst this was all still fresh in my mind. I have been using AWS for ~5-6 years, but not in an architecting capacity. Only my last year has been in a large organisation. I had the urge to get some AWS qualifications whilst talking with my teams so picked up the CCP exam which was pretty easy without prep. Moving to the solution architect one I thought I’d run through some of the material listed on the certification overview (I’ve never paid for explicit courses for other certs before, so why start now… right?) Using the twitch power hour series from last year, the practice exam and the practice questions set - along with some YouTube content I felt relatively confident until I’ve just taken it. It feels like there has been a shift in service focus/question depth that just wasn’t touched in the power hour series specifically. I’m hoping that it was limited to the 15 unscored beta questions with SAA-c03 coming in august, but I can’t help but dread that I’ve underestimated the exam. We will see tomorrow - but I would say to take some extra time looking for up to date resources (like this sub recommends /u/acantril / Stephane’s courses) - just to make sure you don’t get too flustered when you see something you don’t understand. submitted by /u/wheatleyjj [link] [comments]

The storage space allocated to your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster will now dynamically decrease when you delete data from the cluster. Amazon DocumentDB is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Previously, when Amazon DocumentDB data was removed, such as by dropping a collection, the overall allocated space remained the same. The free space was reused automatically when data volume increased in the future.

Highly recommend watching YouTube videos on cloud partitioners free exams. Download apps regarding cloud partitioner exams so your study doesn’t stop when you’re in the bathroom. Think of real life scenarios and how it can be applied with what you learned so far. If you’re unsure of something, ALWAYS google or watch another video of it being explained. My methodology in learning is if you can’t explain it, you didn’t learn it. Lastly, the exam did consist a lot of Well-Built Architecture Framework and billing questions. Make sure that it’s well understood. submitted by /u/Inner-Bus1926 [link] [comments]

Took the CPC this morning and I felt like I did well but there was so pass/fail screen neither is there a pass/fail status on the Pearson VUI. Only status I have is „Exam Delivered Successfully“. Anyone have a similar experience? Let me know! submitted by /u/ElChappyShampoo [link] [comments]

Hi, So I am trying to log into the AWS Training and Certification portal, and am failing to sing in since it doesn't give me the option. I'm at the "Sing in or Sign Up" and the only options I get are company email, partner, or AWS employee. I'm neither. I have done AWS exams in the past and do hold several certs. So I do have a valid Training account. ​ It does give a 4th option, Amazon(shopping). If you click on this, it will sing in with you shopping list account and then ask to give it permission. ​ So the problem is: The shopping account has the same email used, I do not wish to grant my shopping account access to my certification. ​ As per the FAQ I should be able to use the AWS Training account I used previously without linking it to my shopping list. But I cannot figure out how to do it, and or to view my current certs or book new exams. ​ So has anyone managed to log into their Certification portal, with just a regular email. ​ *EDIT*, Half the issues with linking the shopping account with my Cert portal. Is that the shopping has my name shorthanded. But the cert are my full legal(passport/Driver Lic) name. I don't want to use this full name in my shopping. I like using my shorthanded version. I can't be the first person having this issue. As I spoke to 2x people in the office and both had the same issue a while ago. Apparently it was a nightmare to get AWS to correct it. https://preview.redd.it/czjv9s6ci6891.png?width=775&format=png&auto=webp&s=1bd046c4674399c491f92bce1a97ecd2586031b8 ​ https://preview.redd.it/atgz7pgdi6891.png?width=926&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f796186cf0db13244b48e49faf05a26e5236d8c submitted by /u/Iconically_Lost [link] [comments]

Hi community, We have new updates and fixes on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) path, which you might find useful. It's absolutely free to enroll. https://examsdigest.com/courses/amazon-aws-saa-c02/ Changelog. [improve] Domain 2.0 Design High-Performing Architectures [improve] Domain 3.0 Design Secure Applications and Architectures Happy learning, Anastasia submitted by /u/Anastasia_IT [link] [comments]

Hi All, Got my pass for AWS SAA-C02, and I thought I'd do a write up of what I did and how the process went for me. I started studying almost exactly 3 weeks before the date of the exam. My resources were Stephane Maarek's udemy course, Maarek's set of 6 practise exams, and also the set of 6 tutorialsdojo practise exams (Jon Bonso). I did not read any whitepapers, or other resources. I did the udemy course at between 1.5x to 2x and skipped the hands-on videos. I did not do any of the hands-on excercises. I was impatient to start doing the practise tests, so I took the first of Maarek's set when I was only 45% of the way through the course. I continued to work through the course doing an exam every so often, doing the last 2 exams after I had completed the course. I only took each practise exam once, but reviewed the questions I got wrong several times. My scores were: 66%, 61%, 60%, 69%, 70% and 66%. I then started doing the tutorialsdojo practise exams. Again, I only took each exam once, my scores were: 77%, 74%, 83%, 77%, 75% and 86%. I felt that Maarek's practise exams were unbalanced compared to tutorialsdojo/jon bonso, as I scored the same on the first Maarek test, when I had done less than half the course, as I did on the last test when I had finished it. That doesn't seem right. They were still definitely worth doing however, and helped plug a lot of gaps that either weren't in the course or that didn't stick with me for whatever reason. I would suggest they need some rebalancing somehow. The real exam was more similar to the tutorialsdojo practise exams, but with fewer easy questions. Most questions were longer, asking about multiple services in one question, and the answers were also longer, taking more time to read and parse than either of the sets of practise exams. The overall difficulty of the exam was not too bad, and was about what I was expecting. I completed the real exam with 40 minutes to spare which I used to review flagged questions. I flagged about half the questions in the exam, but after reviewing them I only changed 1 answer. I had no issues with the exam proctors, and they said nothing to me after the initial check-in, or 'greet' as they call it. I did have a clear desk and uncluttered room. After submitting I got no pass/fail result, only this text, which I think is now standard for the exam: Thank you for taking the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. After your exam, AWS evaluates compliance with testing policies and procedures and the validity of exam results before the results are officially posted in your AWS Certification Account. This process can take up to 5 business days. When your results are available, you will receive an email stating your exam results and score report are available for download under Previous Exams. If your results are not available after 5 business days or if you have any questions about the AWS Certification program, please contact AWS Training and Certification Support (https://www.aws.training/Support). After nearly 24 hours the result appeared in the AWS certification 'Exam history' section as a pass (but no email, so check the portal), and had a link to a PDF which contained the score and breakdown of sections. I scored 833, which isn't bad after 3 weeks of study - but I should note that I do have previous experience in cloud, but no previous certs. I took the course and the cert to plug any gaps in my knowledge. It turned out that you can use AWS professionally and still only know a limited amount about a limited set of services, the ones that you directly use. I feel that taking the cert gave me a much better overview of AWS services and how they fit together, but actually doing real-world projects with the new services, and comparing them to other cloud offerings, is required to really have a reliable overview of the subject. Next I will be looking in Azure, GCP and Kubernetes. Hope this info helps someone! submitted by /u/Taron_G [link] [comments]

I’m pretty new to AWS and have no experience in the cloud. The biggest domain that i’m struggling with is technology. What are some resources that i can use to study the technology domain? submitted by /u/analuciferase [link] [comments]

Is there anyone who applied for a security architect position at AWS Canada and able to share their experience? The recruiter also told me that there will be a live coding exam and I am curious to know what they will be asking me to code. Thanks submitted by /u/xaveri88 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone! I passed the SAA-C02 a few days ago with a score of 845/1000! I started studying mid march 2022 with u/acantril course. Absolutely incredible resource and worth the time it takes to complete. My studies with that finished at the beginning of June. Following up with that I used u/stephanemaarek course, but I skipped the labs and just focused on the content as a refresher. While I was doing this I practiced with tutorials dojo exams. I felt the difficulty was on par with the exam and was scoring between 85-90% on them. Thanks u/jon-bonso-tdojo! I'm really glad I did the u/stephanemaarek course as well, specifically the machine learning section the day before the exam definitely snagged me some points. I had 2 questions on it! Mostly just picking the correct service to use. I had a handful of questions about HPC's which was interesting, more than I thought I would! Not sure what's next for me, I completed the CKA earlier this year and have a cloud resume developed from the cloud resume challenge. The last piece is implementing testing in the deployment pipeline. Maybe I'll try and use terraform instead of CloudFormation. Who knows! submitted by /u/PokingLaughingCrying [link] [comments]

Have an MBA and I was thinking which Cloud role could use some of the MBA type skills - documentation, process analysis, management. Is MBA useless for entry level Cloud role ? I am planning to do some certificates to get into Cloud space. submitted by /u/PM_40 [link] [comments]

​ https://preview.redd.it/f0pqfz5jg2891.png?width=3832&format=png&auto=webp&s=08ab0ec4226ffad8a0ac89e4dd87ae9f07e1047a Hi Everyone ! I just wanted to throw another free mini project out there for everyone to use - another one with videos. https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/tree/master/aws-hybrid-dns I maintain a AWS mini project REPO https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs These are mini projects which help improve your practical implementation skills - I've had students tell me these have made the difference in interview situations. Today I added my AWS Hybrid DNS mini project to the list (https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/tree/master/aws-hybrid-dns) which includes videos. The videos are linked in that link, or available on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPTavtAB9s&list=PLTk5ZYSbd9MjGUpHNvjhGiy2SESdYZwce (I uploaded 6k resolution versions, YouTube are still processing above 5k) In this one, we simulate a hybrid network environment with AWS on one side, and a simulated on-premises environment on the other. We implement network connectivity and then by creating inbound & outbound route53 endpoints we connect the Linux named based DNS to AWS allowing bi-directional resolution (AWS => ONPREM & ONPREM => AWS) But wait, there's more... I've been progressively going through my mini projects repo and adding video guides to the most popular ones: With this one you will use codecommit as a repo, build docker images with codebuild, and use pipeline and deploy to push the docker image to ECS Fargate (a simple container of cats dockerized application) https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/tree/master/aws-codepipeline-catpipeline If you want to create a Dynamic BGP VPN check this one out https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/blob/master/aws-hybrid-bgpvpn If you fancy creating a working web identity federation application check this out https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/tree/master/aws-cognito-web-identity-federation or if you want to create a serverless reminder application using S3 API Gateway, Lambda, Step functions, SNS and SES check this out https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/tree/master/aws-serverless-pet-cuddle-o-tron and if you want to do a full architecture evolution of a monolithic web app through to a scalable and self-healing architecture ... this is the one for you https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs/tree/master/aws-elastic-wordpress-evolution I'm going to go through as many of these as i can and add high quality video guides, but these are the ones so far. if you do enjoy them, please spread the word. They are taken from my courses, but these are usable for free !!! if you want notifications on new video guides then subscribe to my channel https://youtube.com/c/learncantrill submitted by /u/acantril [link] [comments]

basically im going to thailand in 30 days with my friends but my dad is saying he will cancel tickets if I dont get aws cert by then also will be traveling during this time but can dedicate like 2-3 hours per day to study plz let me know what the fastest way to get some certification is submitted by /u/AkCute [link] [comments]

Hey guys, I have been preparing for AWS Certified Developer - Associate, I have finished the Cantrill course, then used dojo practice exams with Stephane Maarek practice exams, where I have landed consistently +80%. But I just tried to go with certification and failed it, I'm still waiting for detailed results because 5 days have not passed since my try. I feel really bad because it is my first AWS certification ever, and my first try. And I do not know what to practice or to do this 14 days before next attempt. Any tips, advice ​ UPD: Just got results, Landed with 702 score ; C submitted by /u/RP_m_13 [link] [comments]

I'm going for my Associate Dev Certificate in the next couple weeks. Feeling fairly good about the material itself, but I've always been pretty bad at exams. I dunno if I have like undiagnosed ADD, but in general with passive activities like reading, watching movies, and yes taking exams, my mind tends to drift around a lot and it's hard to stay focused. I do fine with more active things like video games and playing music, which is probably why I like coding. In taking some practice exams, I'm realizing I stay more focused and tend to do better when I'm able to take notes on a blank piece of paper. Even literally just writing things like "ASG --> EC2" when reading a question helps a TON. I feel like I know the answer to this already, but there's no physical pen & paper notes taking of any kind allowed, correct? I've seen some people mention an online whiteboard kinda in microsoft paint style, is this the case for Pearson & PSI? What about In person & online? Any accommodations I'm not seeing to help with this? Appreciate any help / advice folks have! TLDR: What's the deal with taking notes during the exam? submitted by /u/ISpamThereforeIStink [link] [comments]

​ https://preview.redd.it/uu9ayvb8py791.png?width=614&format=png&auto=webp&s=5660821a483f72d6694d9be505df67b43c77d839 To my surprise, I woke up to this email this morning. Scored 798. I took the exam Saturday mid-day and wasn't expecting an answer until Monday. But it came Sunday morning. This post is only to be served as encouragement for those who will take it soon. TIMELINE: I was in a bit of a rush. My timeline was one month because I will be making a cross country move next month. Then I found out this version of the exam was retiring end of August, that put even more pressure. I spent the past month studying 3-5hrs a day. Every single day. BACKGROUND: I work at home as helpdesk with an insane amount of downtime. I would have about 2hours of actual work done per day, then study for the remainder of my shift/day. My work actually encourages to use the downtime and earn certs they reimburse for. STUDY SOURCE: Before knowing about this sub, I searched on YouTube 'AWS Cert' and came across NetworkChuck's AWS video. He recommended Anthony Sequeira on Udemy. No surprise as I am sure he gets an actual cut of the deal. But after completing this course, there was SO much missing. I still felt lost. The material just wasn't there. I was not prepared to take the exam at all. It was a good beginners level intro course for Practitioner, definitely not Solutions Architect. Then I found this sub and went with Stéphane Maarek (Udemy) and https://tutorialsdojo.com/ Practice Exams. Stéphane Maarek (Udemy): I could not recommend this highly enough for hands on. Actually doing it hands on makes you remember a lot of things. His 825-page slide was SUPER beneficial as it served as a cheat-sheet for me. Whenever I needed to remember or reference what a certain service was for, I used the search function of the slide and BOOM. I finished the Udemy course in 2 weeks. These slides ARE NOT FREE, you must purchase the Udemy course to access them. https://tutorialsdojo.com/ : I still needed something to supplement the videos and the Practice Exams here I also highly recommend. The way the questions are worded were very similar to the actual exam. It helped me know what to look for, how to use elimination technique, how to search for keywords and key concepts within each question. I consistently scored 60-70s my first round of practice exams but I was not satisfied enough. After taking another week to study, I was consistently scoring 77-85%. His cheat-sheet section and Comparison of AWS Services section was also a game changer for me. Available free here: https://tutorialsdojo.com/comparison-of-aws-services/ ADVICE: If you are bi-lingual, you can get extra +30minutes accommodation. I am spanish but took the test in english. You dont have to call for this accommodation. You literally select it from the accomodations page and it was instantly approved. This saved my butt as I flagged so many questions, it took exactly the remaining 30 minutes to revisit. There are other available accomodations on the list. Eat something light as you will be sitting still for good bit. I took my test at home. If you are in apartments, CLOSE YOUR WINDOW. I have kids that play outside constantly. If the proctor hears this, they will absolutely not hesitate to end your exam. I was getting worried that too many of my answers were "A" option. Like an insane amount. It became a distractor. Process of elimination is key. Every instructor will tell you this. When you are consistently scoring 80s in the above practice exam, then you are ready. A Warning I feel like I definitely got some Beta questions in from the new C03 exam as there was a keyword i have not heard any instructor talk about. There were three questions that talked about "AWS Data Lake" either in the question itself or in the answers. This was the first time I heard of this word. I knew the concept but I had no idea this was an AWS service. I went back to my study materials and confirmed no instructor covered this keyword. Cheers! submitted by /u/ThrivingNomadic [link] [comments]

I have an interview coming up with AWS. This is a solution architect role but with a security specialty. I did youtube and google and the resources out there are for general solution architects but not for security. If anyone has experience with the security one, can anyone share their experience on what it looks like? I understand it focuses heavily on leadership principles and I should create an excel sheet with my past experience and how they map to leadership principles. All my answers should be in STAR format. Looking for a more technical side of input here. submitted by /u/PsychologicalPick447 [link] [comments]

First of all, I just wanted to say that I've lurked this subreddit for a while, and amazed at the support and positivity I've seen here. I wanted to contribute a tiny bit and post about my experience and the information I looked for when searching about this exam. tl;dr Passed with score of 893. First AWS cert, took in person with PearsonVUE, as I did not want to deal with the virtual setup and risk any technical issues. Did not receive results immediately, results received within 24 hours. Main study materials over 2 months: Udemy - Stephane Maarek (Training and Exam) Tutorials Dojo - Jon Bonso Practice Exams Udemy - Neal Davis Practice Exams AWS Official docs and FAQs 1 White paper (AWS Well-Architected Framework) Tutorials Dojo resources (cheatsheets, and comparison of services) Background Software engineer for 10+ years Hands-on AWS experience for 7+ years. Varying levels of exposure and usage for the following services: S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, EC2, EBS, ASG, RDS, ELB, EMR, Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM, and Athena. Almost no hands-on experience on: Anything related to VPC (only worked lightly with Security Groups), Aurora, EFS, API Gateway, Kinesis, CloudFront, Storage Gateway, FSx, EFA, Beanstalk, WAF Studying Approach While I did have a good amount of hands-on experience prior to starting my study, some of my knowledge was quite out of date (did not know S3 was strongly consistent), and I only had bits and pieces of experience (only worked with ALBs, no experience with NLBs). I knew about the basic concepts of S3, but I didn't know anything about all the other storage classes such as S3-IA or Glacier. I had no idea EBS volumes were in a single AZ. I only knew about weighted routing policy in Route 53, and so on. So while using these services did give me a leg up on having at least a baseline knowledge, I felt like I had to rebuild my fundamental understanding of all services and the latest and greatest features. I did the majority of my learning and preparation for my exam through the resources I'll talk about in a bit. Step 1: Initial Training - Building the fundamental knowledge Over the course of about 2 months, I went through Stephane Maarek's course on Udemy. I think if you have never used AWS before, going in order probably makes the most sense. However, since I had used multiple services before, I skipped ahead to the VPC section and spent a considerable amount of time there to understand all the different services, while taking notes. Once I had a decent enough understanding, I went through the course from the beginning. While I wanted to speed through the content (I initially tried at x1.5 speed), I was having a tough time retaining the knowledge. I decided to take it slow and take a bunch of notes, and really try to expand my baseline knowledge. Step 2: Testing my understanding After talking to my colleagues and reading this subreddit, I went ahead and went with buying the Jon Bonso Tutorials Dojo tests. My goal here was to test my fundamental understanding of the my knowledge, and identify my gaps. I also only took the exams in timed mode, to simulate the pacing I would need. First pass test scores below: Set 1: 73.85% Set 2: 66.15% Set 3: 76.92% Set 4: 75.38% Set 5: 70.77% Set 6: 75.38% I also took Stephane's exam at the end of his course, where I scored 75%. Step 3: Reviewing my understanding After my tests, I would go through every incorrect question first, to understand why I got it wrong. Sometimes, it was a matter of choosing wrong between two similar choices (I had a tough time understanding the difference was between an interface endpoint and a gateway endpoint). Other times, I was careless when I was reading the question and answers (the question asks for options which are not suitable). Other times, I just had no idea what the service was even capable of (no idea you could do Expedited Retrievals for Glacier). The TD exams are great, as they directly explain every single option, as well as link to resources where you can read up more about it. Some things that I struggled to remember were specific facts, so I took some time to memorize those (Number of days storage requirements for different S3 storage classes, and IOPS for varying EBS volumes, for example). Step 4: Filling in the gaps While the Stephane's course covers a lot of content, I really wanted to shore up my understanding and fill in the gaps. While the practice test scores probably indicated that I could take the test and pass, I didn't want to risk having to retake it. So I went ahead and went through various other resources, which included: Using the Tutorials Dojo comparison of AWS services and study guide Various AWS service FAQs - Good to read through to confirm understanding. If would definitely recommend at least skimming through these, focusing primarily on the ones that Stephane covers in his course. AWS Documentation: You could read through them, but I would use the details docs to specifically to learn about the services which came up on the practice exams which I didn't fully understand (Gateway endpoint vs Interface endpoint). Skimmed through one Whitepaper, which was AWS Well-Architected Framework. Going through Stephane's course and my notes again. Step 5: Retaking practice exams and final prep When I was a few days out from the exam, and at least a week+ after taking the initial Bonso exams, I wanted to retake the exams. I did not end up retaking all of them, but my scores were as follows: Set 1: 81.54% Set 2: 95.38% Set 3: 95.38% Set 4: 100% I definitely remembered some of the questions and answers, so these scores are definitely inflated. However, I was happy that I was able to now understand the questions which tripped me up before. I finally wanted to do a couple of more tests for practice, so I took a few of Neal Davis's practice exams on Udemy. Test scores below: 81% 76% 86% By this point, I was pretty exhausted from taking so many practice exams and reading through so many materials so I decided to stop at 3 exams. The morning of the exam, I lightly skimmed over the some of the more lightly covered services (mainly machine learning ones mentioned in Stephane's course) to remind myself of what those are, as well as the TD study materials, such as the cheat sheets and comparison of services. Step 6: Taking the actual exam By this point, I was fairly well versed in the timing required for taking the exam, so my pace was pretty solid. I went through and answered every question with about 50 minutes to spare, while flagging about 15 questions which I wasn't 100% certain about. Some of them varied in uncertainty (some I was 80% sure of the right answer, some I was 50-50). I took up the remaining time to review every single question to make sure I had read the question correctly (to make sure I didn't trip up on the wording or understanding). After the exam, I was fairly confident I had passed the exam, but wasn't entirely sure about my score. Finished the exam about 1:30 pm on Friday, and received the results Saturday morning at about 5:30 AM with a score of 893, which was higher than I had expected. Final words: I would highly recommend all the materials I used in my studying. Stephane's course is excellent for covering all the topics while he gives some helpful tips on what you will probably be tested on the exam. Both Jon's and Neal's exams were extremely helpful for giving information on why answers were right and why others were wrong. I also think in terms of level of difficulty, they are very similar to the actual exam. I also think this is subjective, as it kind of depends on your level of knowledge and comfort level with all the different services. Here are some random tips and observations I had from my experience: I noticed that there were definitely a few questions on the real exam that I had encountered (or very similar questions) to ones I saw in the practice exams Jon Bonso and Neal Davis. Taking all those practice exams and reviewing them closely definitely helped in these cases. Remember that while there are 65 questions, 15 are unscored. Of course, I don't know which ones are unscored, but don't panic if you see a service that you've barely seen or remember from studying. Just flag them for review later or try to eliminate as many options as possible before answering. Chances are that these are the unscored questions, assuming you went through all these materials. I definitely remember at least one question which referenced some machine learning services. I am a very visual person, so I did my best to visualize all network related questions while studying, such as VPCs, ELBs, Route 53, and CloudFront. While I did get a whiteboard and used it for one VPC related question, it helped to be able to visualize these things in my head without having to write it out. Try to really understand and remember what makes a specific service unique or different from each other. This is covered in various resources that I have already mentioned, and it will depend on your specific level of understanding. Read the questions and answers carefully. This is important as there are always specific keywords they use to indicate what the solution is looking for (cost, availability, durability, time periods, etc). Especially the long-winded questions with long answers, it's easy to glaze over it and not correctly interpret what they're proposing in the solution. When there are long answers with 3+ services in the picture, there's usually one of them that are obviously wrong, so it's easy to eliminate. Definitely try and eliminate as many answers as possible, before attempting to answer the question. If you are unable to least narrow it down to two answers during your practice exams, read up on the incorrect answers to understand why those are incorrect. You're probably lacking knowledge still if you're unable to do so. Thanks for reading my long post, good luck to you all on your certification journey. submitted by /u/Incompl [link] [comments]