A structured 5-week cohort that drills mid-career engineers through every AWS service architecture — with live terminals, not slides.
94%
Pass rate
340+
Certified
5 weeks
To exam-ready
// ARCHITECTURE IN PROGRESS — us-east-1
Each week ends with a working deployment. The scroll itself is the syllabus — watch the diagrams grow from 4 nodes to 26.
Most tutorials skip the "why." We don't. You'll launch a real EC2 instance, configure IAM roles from scratch, set security group rules that actually make sense, and store your first object in S3 — all inside a live lab environment, not a sandbox screenshot.
You deploy a working web server accessible over HTTPS. Your first architecture diagram has 4 nodes.
// WEEK 1 · VPC FOUNDATIONS
You'll configure an Application Load Balancer, write Auto Scaling policies triggered by real CloudWatch metrics, and watch your fleet expand and contract under simulated load. By the end of this session, your architecture handles 10x traffic spikes automatically.
Your app survives a 10,000 req/min load test. Architecture diagram now has 9 nodes across 2 AZs.
// WEEK 2 · LOAD BALANCING & AUTO-SCALING
RDS Multi-AZ, Aurora read replicas, ElastiCache for session state, DynamoDB for sub-millisecond lookups. You'll build each one, run a simulated failover, and measure the actual recovery time. The difference between theory and a passing exam score is running the failover yourself.
Failover test passes in 47 seconds. Architecture diagram spans 14 nodes with replication arrows.
// WEEK 3 · DATABASES & STORAGE
API Gateway → Lambda → DynamoDB. Then add SNS for fan-out, SQS for queue decoupling, and EventBridge for scheduled jobs. You'll build a complete event-driven microservice that processes 1,000 orders/minute — with zero servers running when it's quiet.
Serverless API handles 1K req/min at $0.002 per 1,000 requests. 18-node architecture diagram.
// WEEK 4 · SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURE
Route 53 failover routing. CloudFront CDN in front of everything. WAF rules blocking the OWASP Top 10. Active-passive replication between us-east-1 and eu-west-1. You'll defend every decision — why this instance type, why this replication strategy, what it costs per month. This is the exam and the job interview in one session.
Full SAA-C03 capstone review. 26-node multi-region architecture. Exam readiness score: 94%.
// CAPSTONE · MULTI-REGION FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEM
us-east-1 (PRIMARY)
eu-west-1 (FAILOVER)
You just saw 5 architectures you'll build
3 seats left in the first session. After that, the next open cohort is March 22.
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First-attempt pass rate
SAA-C03 exam, cohorts 1–8
11 days
Avg. time to schedule exam
after cohort completion
$142K
Median salary post-cert
among 2025 cohort alumni
340+
Engineers certified
across 9 cohorts since 2024
“I spent 3 months clicking through AWS docs and failing practice exams. Eight weeks in Certify and I passed SAA-C03 on the first try. The live labs are the difference — you can't fake understanding when the terminal is staring at you.”
Marcus Chen
DevOps Engineer → Senior Cloud Architect
Stripe
“My manager handed me a migration deadline with 6 weeks on the clock. I enrolled in Certify the same day. The multi-region capstone session alone saved me from making three architectural mistakes that would have been expensive to fix in production.”
Priya Nair
Backend Developer → AWS Solutions Architect
Shopify
“Coming from a sysadmin background, the AWS console felt like someone reorganized a data center in the dark. Certify gave me the mental model I was missing. The zigzag between theory and lab is exactly how I learn.”
Jordan Okafor
SysAdmin → Cloud Engineer
HubSpot
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One free 3-hour session. A real lab environment. A working architecture by the time you leave. No slides-only lectures.
Live lab environment
Real AWS account, pre-provisioned. No setup friction, no shared sandboxes.
Build a 4-node VPC architecture
From scratch. EC2 + S3 + IAM + Security Groups. Working deployment by end of session.
Architecture review
A working AWS Solutions Architect reviews your diagram and flags exam-day mistakes.
Exam readiness score
Leave with a personalized gap analysis and a 30-day study plan.
Download the Full Syllabus
32 pages · SAA-C03 mapped · Week-by-week lab list
Not ready to commit? The syllabus maps every lab to a specific SAA-C03 exam domain.
One more thing
70% of self-study candidates fail their first attempt. Every Certify cohort engineer who completes the capstone has a 94% first-attempt pass rate. The difference is the lab environment and the live architecture review — not more video lectures.