AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2026 – SAA-C03

As more and more companies migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud, the demand for highly skilled and certified AWS Professionals will continue to rise over the coming years ahead. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 is consistently among the top-paying IT certifications and you can earn over $150,000 per year with an AWS Solutions Architect certification!

This AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 video training course is a concise collection of lectures on the most important AWS services that you need to know in order to pass the SAA-C03 exam. It contains the following lessons:

• EXAM OVERVIEW – discusses the exam scope and coverage, exam format, and other important information that you need to know before booking the exam.

• AWS BASICS – an overview of AWS and its global infrastructure.

• AWS SERVICES WALKTHROUGH – thorough discussion of the various AWS services under Compute, Storage, Database, Security, Networking, etc. Note: If you are already enrolled in our other AWS Associate-level video courses, then this Services Walkthrough section is the same across all our Associate training courses. You can opt to skip this part but we recommend that you still go through these at least once.

• AWS DEEP DIVES – provides more in-depth discussions on the most critical AWS services that you must thoroughly understand in order to pass the exam, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, Amazon VPC, Amazon RDS, etc. Each deep dive section also contains a mini-quiz at the end.

• COMPARISON OF AWS SERVICES – a versus section that compares two or more seemingly similar AWS services and discusses their use cases.

• EXAM TIPS AND TEST-TAKING STRATEGIES – a run-through of some critical exam-taking strategies that will help you confidently answer the actual exam questions.

• HANDS-ON LABS – some sections have step-by-step demos on how to execute important tasks in the AWS console.

• FULL PRACTICE TEST – one full set of sample test under time pressure that simulates the actual exam environment. All questions have detailed explanations and references after finishing the quiz.

• DOWNLOADABLE COURSE PDF - Access our 1000+ Solutions Architect Associate Course PDF to easily review all the related SOA-C03 exam topics

All video lectures in this course have professionally made subtitles to help you gain a better understanding of the concepts discussed. This course will be regularly updated to the new SAA-C03 version, which was released on August 2022. This course is also beneficial for those who are planning to take the initial preparation for the much-advanced AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 exam.

Does this cover all SAA-C03 topics even if the course length is less than 15 hours long? 

• Absolutely yes. A lengthy video course does not mean it is relevant to the actual SAA-C03 version. We carefully designed our lesson to cover all the relevant topics and AWS services in a more concise way by providing an overview of all AWS Services by category. Then we offer deep dive sections on specific AWS services that are covered more in-depth on the SAA-C03 exam.

  
  

Is there a new version for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam? 

• AWS made an announcement last March 2022 that there would be a new version of their popular AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. The new SAA exam code has been upgraded to SAA-C03 and was released on August 2022.

When will the new SAA-C04 version for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam be released? 

• The AWS team has not yet released any information on this.

  
  

Is this an exam dump for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 exam?

• No, it isn't. AWS is always updating its exam content, and thus, the exam dumps you are seeing over the Internet are mostly inaccurate and outright illegal. The provided answers are wrong, and you are not provided with the proper explanations as to why an option is correct or not.

• We write our own practice exam content based on the official SAA-C03 Exam Guide and on our own AWS exam experience. If you are looking for exam dumps for the SAA-C03 exam, please look somewhere else because this course is definitely NOT for you.

What are the new exam topics that I should expect on the SAA-C03 exam?

To view the new SAA-C03 exam topics that you should prepare for, you have to check the official Exam Guide and look at its Appendix section. It contains an enumerated list of the related AWS services that are included in the exam. Moreover, it even includes a list of non-related AWS services that won’t show up in your actual AWS exam.

In Analytics, prepare to see Amazon Athena, AWS Data Exchange, AWS Data Pipeline, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service), Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Redshift. For Application Integration, the SAA-C03 exam covers Amazon AppFlow, AWS AppSync, Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events), Amazon MQ, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and AWS Step Functions.

The new exam also includes a lot of Machine Learning topics, such as Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Forecast, Amazon Fraud Detector, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Textract, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and many more.

Last Update: April 2026