1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:03,120 Hello and welcome to the AWS certified solutions 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:04,710 architecture associate course. 3 00:00:04,710 --> 00:00:05,820 My name is Stéphane Maarek 4 00:00:05,820 --> 00:00:07,860 and I will be your instructor for this course. 5 00:00:07,860 --> 00:00:09,510 So I'm delighted to have you here. 6 00:00:09,510 --> 00:00:10,800 We're going to start in five minutes 7 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,020 so please pay attention to this lecture. 8 00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:14,580 So we are going to prepare 9 00:00:14,580 --> 00:00:19,107 for the solutions architect exam of code SAA-C03 10 00:00:19,107 --> 00:00:22,257 and it's a challenging, yet super interesting certification. 11 00:00:22,257 --> 00:00:24,960 And this course will cover everything you need to 12 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,490 know to pass the certification. 13 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:27,600 So this course is long. 14 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,700 It's about 25 hours long 15 00:00:29,700 --> 00:00:31,890 but I will make sure it's my promise 16 00:00:31,890 --> 00:00:34,830 to you to keep it as interesting as possible along the way. 17 00:00:34,830 --> 00:00:35,970 You will learn a lot. 18 00:00:35,970 --> 00:00:38,850 I expect you to know some basic things about IT. 19 00:00:38,850 --> 00:00:39,990 Although I will teach you a few things 20 00:00:39,990 --> 00:00:41,760 along the way and be sure of one thing 21 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,570 I will teach you everything you need to know about AWS. 22 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:47,820 So this course contain videos from my other courses 23 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:50,880 such as the AWS certified Cloud Practitioner course, 24 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,490 Developer and SysOps course, because there's a shared amount 25 00:00:53,490 --> 00:00:56,520 of knowledge between all the AWS courses. 26 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,560 So if you hear me say some keywords 27 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,270 or talk about the wrong exam 28 00:01:00,270 --> 00:01:02,970 don't worry you are in the right place, nonetheless 29 00:01:02,970 --> 00:01:05,970 but there is a very exciting query section in this course 30 00:01:05,970 --> 00:01:07,500 actually more than one section 31 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,840 but it's dedicated to solution architecture. 32 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,130 And so we will do a deep dive on this in this course. 33 00:01:13,130 --> 00:01:16,260 We will cover over 30 AWS services in depth. 34 00:01:16,260 --> 00:01:18,420 So you will learn a lot 35 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:21,330 And finally, if you're a beginner in AWS 36 00:01:21,330 --> 00:01:22,620 you are more than welcome. 37 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:23,850 Just take your time with this course. 38 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:25,530 It's not a race and if you need to revisit 39 00:01:25,530 --> 00:01:26,541 the course a second time 40 00:01:26,541 --> 00:01:28,650 or revisit some videos, it is okay. 41 00:01:28,650 --> 00:01:30,330 Many students have to do it 42 00:01:30,330 --> 00:01:32,550 before mastering all the concepts. 43 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:34,710 So why should I teach this course to you? 44 00:01:34,710 --> 00:01:37,530 Well, I just passed the SAA-C03 exam 45 00:01:37,530 --> 00:01:39,780 with the score of 96.1%. 46 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:43,050 That's even before following my new topics at the exam. 47 00:01:43,050 --> 00:01:44,850 So hopefully I'm the right teacher for you. 48 00:01:44,850 --> 00:01:47,700 I also hold nine other AWS certifications. 49 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:51,930 So, I've taught AWS to a few people now, already. 50 00:01:51,930 --> 00:01:52,860 So, who am I? 51 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:55,530 Well for those who don't know me, my name is Stéphane Maarek 52 00:01:55,530 --> 00:01:57,630 and I've been teaching AWS certifications 53 00:01:57,630 --> 00:02:00,270 to hundreds of thousands of students around the world. 54 00:02:00,270 --> 00:02:02,400 So, I used to work as an IT consultant 55 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,130 and as an AWS solutions architect, Developer and SysOps. 56 00:02:05,130 --> 00:02:06,765 So I'm quite familiar with AWS 57 00:02:06,765 --> 00:02:09,240 and I've also built websites, applications 58 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,730 and streaming platforms on the cloud. 59 00:02:11,730 --> 00:02:13,320 I'm a veteran instructor on AWS. 60 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,600 I've teach about 10 certifications. 61 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,970 I teach about CloudFormation, Lambda, and EC2 62 00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:21,030 and obviously solutions architect associate. 63 00:02:21,030 --> 00:02:23,220 You can find me on various platforms on GitHub. 64 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:24,480 You can follow me on LinkedIn. 65 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,300 You can read about me on Medium and follow me on Twitter. 66 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:28,950 If you want to connect with me. 67 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:31,590 So very shortly, we'll have a lot more deep dive 68 00:02:31,590 --> 00:02:35,580 onto what's AWS, but AWS stands for Amazon web services 69 00:02:35,580 --> 00:02:37,380 and it is a cloud provider. 70 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:40,320 It provides you with servers and services that you can use 71 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,177 on demand and scale easily, which is a big, big difference 72 00:02:43,177 --> 00:02:46,770 from what you used to do on premises in your data center 73 00:02:46,770 --> 00:02:49,290 where you had to order your servers physically 74 00:02:49,290 --> 00:02:51,210 and install them before being able to use them. 75 00:02:51,210 --> 00:02:53,880 On the cloud, we can get them whenever we want so on demand 76 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,790 and we can have as many as we want so we can scale easily. 77 00:02:56,790 --> 00:02:59,880 And thanks to AWS as it has been revolutionized. 78 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,130 And now today, AWS power some 79 00:03:02,130 --> 00:03:03,540 of the biggest websites in the world. 80 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:04,860 So you will be surprised 81 00:03:04,860 --> 00:03:07,940 not surprised about amazon.com obviously because well 82 00:03:07,940 --> 00:03:10,380 AWS belongs to Amazon, but for Netflix 83 00:03:10,380 --> 00:03:12,630 they actually don't own a single server. 84 00:03:12,630 --> 00:03:15,240 They rent everything from AWS 85 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,270 which allows Netflix to run at scale. 86 00:03:18,270 --> 00:03:20,370 So, what are we going to learn in this course? Well, 87 00:03:20,370 --> 00:03:23,400 we're going to learn a lot of AWS services. 88 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,230 As you can see some of them are right here. 89 00:03:25,230 --> 00:03:27,330 There's even more, but I didn't wanna show them. 90 00:03:27,330 --> 00:03:29,010 So don't feel overwhelmed. 91 00:03:29,010 --> 00:03:31,890 My goal is to teach, show to you one by one. 92 00:03:31,890 --> 00:03:35,070 So I like to say that AWS is a spaghetti bowl 93 00:03:35,070 --> 00:03:37,140 because all these services are linked 94 00:03:37,140 --> 00:03:38,970 and interconnected with one another. 95 00:03:38,970 --> 00:03:41,040 But with me we're going to entangle 96 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,450 this entire spaghetti bowl, 97 00:03:42,450 --> 00:03:45,210 have a very good meal, and learn AWS together. 98 00:03:45,210 --> 00:03:46,110 So I hope you're excited. 99 00:03:46,110 --> 00:03:47,640 I'm definitely excited to teach this course 100 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,073 to you and I will see you in the next lecture.