SAA-C03

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Order Processing Guarantee - The Sequencing vs. Simplicity Trade-off

14 December 2025·894 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix SQS FIFO Lambda API Gateway Messaging

Explore the critical differences between SQS Standard, SQS FIFO, and SNS for order processing scenarios. Learn why FIFO queues are essential for sequencing guarantees and how to avoid common distributed systems pitfalls.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Hybrid Storage Gateway - The Latency-Lifecycle Trade-off Analysis

14 December 2025·1310 words·7 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Storage Gateway S3 File Gateway Lifecycle Policies Hybrid Cloud

Analyzing how to extend on-premises SMB file storage to AWS while maintaining low-latency access to recent files and implementing automated lifecycle management to control growing storage costs.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Event-Driven Decoupling - The Pub/Sub vs. Stream Processing Trade-off

14 December 2025·1068 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix SNS SQS Kinesis Decoupling Event-Driven Architecture

When faced with extreme message volume spikes (100K msg/sec) and dozens of independent consumers, choosing between SNS+SQS fan-out, Kinesis streams, and autoscaling patterns determines both scalability and cost efficiency.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Decoupling Master-Worker Architectures - The Elasticity vs. Complexity Trade-off

14 December 2025·1011 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon SQS Auto Scaling Decoupling Elasticity

Modernizing a legacy master-worker application requires eliminating single points of failure. This drill explores why queue-based decoupling with demand-driven autoscaling beats scheduled scaling and monolithic coordination patterns.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: VPC Endpoint for Private S3 Access - The Security-Cost Trade-off Analysis

13 December 2025·619 words·3 mins

Architecture Drills Cloud Provider AWS SAA-C03 FinOps VPC Endpoint Amazon S3 Security

A cloud application running on EC2 instances inside a VPC needs to privately access logs stored in Amazon S3 without internet connectivity. This drill explores how to securely enable S3 access by evaluating different AWS solution options.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Stateful Application Storage - The Shared State Trade-off Analysis

13 December 2025·933 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon EFS Application Load Balancer Multi-AZ Storage Architecture

When scaling a stateful web application across multiple Availability Zones, local EBS storage creates data silos. This drill explores the architectural decision between EBS replication, session affinity, and shared file systems like Amazon EFS.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Large-Scale Data Migration - The Bandwidth-Cost-Time Trade-off Analysis

13 December 2025·1431 words·7 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix AWS Snowball S3 File Gateway Data Migration Bandwidth Optimization

A 70TB NFS migration scenario that tests your understanding of AWS data transfer services, bandwidth constraints, and the critical trade-off between migration speed and network utilization. Learn why physical data transfer devices trump internet-based solutions at scale.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: S3 Log Analytics - The Operational Simplicity vs. Feature Richness Trade-off

12 December 2025·1422 words·7 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon Athena S3 Serverless Analytics Amazon Redshift AWS Glue

A fintech startup needs to query JSON logs in S3 with minimal operational overhead and no infrastructure changes. This drill explores why serverless query engines beat traditional data warehouses for ad-hoc analytics workloads.

AWS SAA-C03 Drill: Global Data Ingestion to S3 - The Transfer Acceleration vs. Multi-Region Trade-off

12 December 2025·972 words·5 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix S3 Transfer Acceleration Data Ingestion Global Architecture

Analyze the decision logic behind choosing S3 Transfer Acceleration over multi-region replication strategies for global data ingestion workloads with high-speed connectivity.