AWS SAA-C03 Notes


  • S3 Transfer Acceleration = Edge Location 으로 transfer 해서 transfer speed 올리는 법

  • PrincipalOrgID = AWS Organization member accounts 만 접근 가능하게 for resource policies

  • Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store

    • Secrets Manager = Auto Rotation
  • CloudFront vs Global Accelerator (both support Shield for DDoS)

    • CloudFront = CDN for fast static content delivery, dynamic content (API acceleration)
      • Origin = S3, ALB, EC2, HTTP backend
    • Global Accelerator = Best routing by using Edge Locations
      • TCP/UDP, MQTT(IoT), VoIP, HTTP with static IP address
      • Provides static IP
  • Network Firewall = provides filtering for both inbound and outbound network traffic

  • GLB = L3 (IP Packets)

  • EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) = no latency on first use

  • SSO + MSAD = two-way forest trust AWS Directory Service for MSAD

  • AWS Config rules = to check resources that are not properly tagged

  • AWS Shield Advanced = ELB, CF, GA, R53

  • DR RPO/RTO order

  • DDB PITR vs AWS Backup

    • PITR = recover table to any point in time in a rolling 35 day window
    • Backup = for long-term archiving and retention
  • Glue Job Bookmarks = prevent re-processing old data

  • S3 Legal Hold

    • Protect the object indefinitely, independent from the retention period
    • Can be freely placed and removed using the s3:PutObjectLegalHold IAM permission
  • Control Tower & SCPs can prevent VPCs from having access to Internet

  • CloudFront field-level encryption = allow to protect sensitive information throughout the application stack

  • Storage Gateway = iSCSI

    • S3 File GW = extend storage space by leveraging Amazon S3, supports SMB
    • FSx File GW?
    • Volume GW
      • stored volumes = your primary data is stored locally and your entire dataset is available for low-latency access while asynchronously backed up to AWS
      • cached volumes = your primary data is written to S3, while retaining your frequently accessed data locally in a cache for low-latency access
    • Tape GW?
  • S3 signed cookies & signed URLs for who do not have cookie support or unable to change hardcoded URLs

  • Compute Savings Plan vs EC2 Instance Savings Plan

    • EC2 Instance Savings Plan = EC2 only & instance family committed
  • S3 Storage Lens

    • Identify S3 buckets that are no longer being accessed or are rarely accessed
    • Identify versioning enabled
  • S3 Inventory Report = List of unencrypted objects

  • SQS FIFO vs SQS

    • FIFO = more expensive, guarantees processing exactly once
    • Standard = at least once
  • FSx

    • Amazon FSx for Lustre = SMB
    • Amazon FSx for OpenZFS = NFS
    • Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP = NFS, SMB, iSCSI
  • Lambda reserved concurrency vs provisioned concurrency

    • reserved concurrency?
    • provisioned concurrency
    • SnapStart for Java can improve startup performance for latency-sensitive applications by up to 10x at no extra cost
  • Direct Connect vs VPN vs PrivateLink?

    • PrivateLink with VPC endpoint allows to connect services across different accounts and VPCs
  • GW VPC Endpoint vs Interface VPC Endpoint

    • GW Endpoint = for S3 and DDB, doesn’t allow from on-prem, peered VPCs in other Regions, or TGW
  • Kinesis Firehose vs Streams

  • io vs gp

    • gp2 vs gp3 = gp3 is cheaper and better
    • io1/2 supports Multi-Attach
  • Global, Reduce latency, health checks, no failover = Amazon CloudFront

  • Global ,Reduce latency, health checks, failover, Route traffic = Amazon Route 53

  • Use Workload Discovery on AWS to generate architecture diagrams of the workloads

  • Transfer Family supports AS2

  • Amazon S3 Glacier:

    • Expedited Retrieval: Provides access to data within 1-5 minutes.
    • Standard Retrieval: Provides access to data within 3-5 hours.
    • Bulk Retrieval: Provides access to data within 5-12 hours.
  • Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive:

    • Standard Retrieval: Provides access to data within 12 hours.
    • Bulk Retrieval: Provides access to data within 48 hours.
  • X-Ray = trace the requests between the microservices