== PLEASE READ THIS BRIEF NOTE ==

Welcome to the course!

A] If you did not do any course on AWS before...

It is perfectly fine to start with this course if you're new with AWS.

Most learners start with this course on AWS Solutions Architect Associate, with some doing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner as a less technical warmup. If you feel overwhelmed by this course, try to watch the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course first.

After this course, most learners move on to AWS Certified Developer or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. 

B] If you first completed my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course

You can skip sections 3, 4 & 5.

C] If you first completed my AWS Certified Developer Associate course and don't want to re-watch content...

Please watch the following lectures: 

Section 6 - EC2 - Solutions Architect Associate Level

• Private vs Public vs Elastic IP

• Private vs Public vs Elastic IP Hands On

• EC2 Placement Groups

• EC2 Placement Groups - Hands On

• Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) - Overview

• Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) - Hands On

• ENI - Extra Reading

• EC2 Hibernate

• EC2 Hibernate - Hands On

• EC2 - Advanced Concepts (Nitro, vCPU, Capacity Reservations)

Section 7 - EC2 Instance Storage

• EBS Encryption

Section 8 - High Availability and Scalability: ELB & ASG

• Auto Scaling Groups - for Solutions Architects

Section 9 - AWS Fundamentals: RDS + Aurora + ElastiCache

• Amazon Aurora

• Amazon Aurora - Advanced Concepts

• ElastiCache for Solution Architects

• List of Ports to be familiar with

Section 11 - Classic Solutions Architecture Discussions

• Solutions Architecture Discussions Overview

• WhatsTheTime.com

• MyClothes.com

• MyWordPress.com

• Instantiating applications quickly

• Beanstalk Hands On

Section 14 - Advanced Amazon S3 & Athena

• S3 Analytics

• S3 Select & Glacier Select

• S3 Requester Pays

Section 15 - CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator

• AWS Global Accelerator - Overview

• AWS Global Accelerator - Hands On

Section 16 - AWS Storage Extras

• AWS Snow Family Overview

• AWS Snow Family Hands On

• Architecture: Snowball into Glacier

• Amazon FSx

• Amazon FSx - Hands On

• Storage Gateway Overview

• Amazon FSx File Gateway

• Storage Gateway Hands On

• AWS Transfer Family

• All AWS Storage Options Compared

Section 17 - Decoupling applications: SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Active MQ

• SQS - Long Polling

• SQS - Request Response

• SQS + Auto Scaling Group

• Amazon Kinesis

• Amazon Kinesis - Hands On

• Amazon MQ

And everything from section 18 onwards.

Happy learning!
Stephane Maarek