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AWS Solutions Architect Study Roadmap

SAA-C03 · 10-week plan · Free

Last updated: March 30, 2026

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Domain Weight Distribution

D1: Design Secure Architectures
30%
D2: Design Resilient Architectures
26%
D3: Design High-Performing Architectures
24%
D4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20%

Week-by-Week Study Plan

Week 1

Domain 1: Secure Access — IAM policies, resource-based policies, cross-account access

Week 2

Domain 1: Secure Workloads — Encryption at rest/transit, KMS, ACM, Security Groups

Week 3

Domain 2: Scalable Architectures — Auto Scaling, ELB, SQS/SNS decoupling

Week 4

Domain 2: Highly Available — Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, Route 53 failover, Global Accelerator

Week 5

Domain 2: Disaster Recovery — Backup/Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Site

Week 6

Domain 3: Storage & Databases — S3 Lifecycle, EBS types, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift

Week 7

Domain 3: Compute & Networking — EC2 placement groups, Lambda, CloudFront, VPC peering

Week 8

Domain 4: Cost Optimization — Reserved Instances, Spot, Savings Plans, S3 tiers, Right-sizing

Week 9

Cross-Domain: Serverless architectures, Containers, Migration strategies, Well-Architected Review

Week 10

Full Review: Practice exams, Scenario walkthroughs, Weak areas, Exam logistics

Free Resources

AWS Skill Builder, AWS Docs

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