Module 01 · 4 hrs
Start hereIntroduction & Setup
Overview of cloud and AWS. Set up an AWS account.
Cloud & DevOpsIntermediate
AWS Solution Architect Associate
SAA certification curriculum
Full-spectrum AWS SAA preparation — IAM, storage, compute, networking, autoscaling, serverless, databases, analytics, containers, DevOps, migration and architecting — with three portfolio projects.
20 modules80-hr track80% hands-on3 projects
Curriculum
20 modules, 80 hrs of hands-on learning
Every module pairs a focused topic with a guided practical exercise — learn it, build it, then practice it on the Atom Code portal in the same session.
Module 02 · 5.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionIdentity Service & Billing
IAM users, policies, roles, Cognito, Active Directory, AWS Billing Conductor, AWS Budget. Practice: IAM (users, roles, policies), managing users in AWS.
Module 03 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionStorage Layer
S3, EBS, EFS, FSx. Practice: creating buckets, managing objects, static web hosting.
Module 04 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionCompute Layer
EC2 (Linux, Windows), Cloud Shell, AMI. Practice: static and multiple web hosting on Linux, server image using AMI.
Module 05 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionNetworking Layer
VPC (subnetting, routing, internet and NAT gateway). Practice: VPC subnetting, routing, internet gateway.
Module 06 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionConnecting Layer
VPC peering and transit gateway. Practice: VPC peering.
Module 07 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionAuto Scaling
Auto Scaling Group, health checks. Practice: creating an Auto Scaling Group and executing auto-scaling.
Module 08 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionLoad Balancing
Load balancer classification and types. Practice: Elastic Load Balancer and Application Load Balancer.
Module 09 · 3.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionContent Delivery Network
DNS, Route 53, latency-based routing, geography-based routing. Practice: CloudFront distribution, enabling geographic location.
Module 10 · 3 hrs
Hands-on sessionServerless
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Fargate. Practice: Lambda.
Module 11 · 4.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionApplication Integration
SQS, SNS, SES, Amazon MQ.
Module 12 · 8.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionMonitoring, Management and Security
CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, EventBridge, Global Accelerator, GuardDuty, Inspector, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, WAF. Practice: CloudWatch.
Module 13 · 3 hrs
Hands-on sessionDatabase
RDS, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Keyspaces, Neptune, QLDB.
Module 14 · 3 hrs
Hands-on sessionAnalytics
Introduction to ELT/ETL, AWS Kinesis, EMR, AWS Glue, QuickSight, Hadoop overview and processing frameworks.
Module 15 · 4 hrs
Hands-on sessionContainerization
Introduction to Docker, ECR Elastic Container Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service. Practice: developing and managing a container in Linux.
Module 16 · 2.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionDevOps Overview
DevOps overview, SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodology. Practice: GitHub, GitHub Actions/Runners, DockerHub.
Module 17 · 3 hrs
Hands-on sessionMigrations
Migration strategies, AWS DMS, Storage Gateway, CAF.
Module 18 · 7 hrs
Hands-on sessionDisaster Planning & Cloud Architecting
High availability, disaster management, comparing various cloud architecting methods.
Module 19 · 2.5 hrs
Hands-on sessionAI/ML Overview
Lex, Kendra, Translate, Polly, Rekognition, SageMaker. Practice: chatbot and translating a website on Linux using managed services.
Module 20 · 5 hrs
Hands-on sessionProject Presentation & Wrap-Up
Final project integrating all AWS services learned. Present projects and review key concepts.