Hello and welcome to the AWS certified solutions
architecture associate course.
My name is Stéphane Maarek
and I will be your instructor for this course.
So I'm delighted to have you here.
We're going to start in five minutes
so please pay attention to this lecture.
So we are going to prepare
for the solutions architect exam of code SAA-C03
and it's a challenging, yet super interesting certification.
And this course will cover everything you need to
know to pass the certification.
So this course is long.
It's about 25 hours long
but I will make sure it's my promise
to you to keep it as interesting as possible along the way.
You will learn a lot.
I expect you to know some basic things about IT.
Although I will teach you a few things
along the way and be sure of one thing
I will teach you everything you need to know about AWS.
So this course contain videos from my other courses
such as the AWS certified Cloud Practitioner course,
Developer and SysOps course, because there's a shared amount
of knowledge between all the AWS courses.
So if you hear me say some keywords
or talk about the wrong exam
don't worry you are in the right place, nonetheless
but there is a very exciting query section in this course
actually more than one section
but it's dedicated to solution architecture.
And so we will do a deep dive on this in this course.
We will cover over 30 AWS services in depth.
So you will learn a lot
And finally, if you're a beginner in AWS
you are more than welcome.
Just take your time with this course.
It's not a race and if you need to revisit
the course a second time
or revisit some videos, it is okay.
Many students have to do it
before mastering all the concepts.
So why should I teach this course to you?
Well, I just passed the SAA-C03 exam
with the score of 96.1%.
That's even before following my new topics at the exam.
So hopefully I'm the right teacher for you.
I also hold nine other AWS certifications.
So, I've taught AWS to a few people now, already.
So, who am I?
Well for those who don't know me, my name is Stéphane Maarek
and I've been teaching AWS certifications
to hundreds of thousands of students around the world.
So, I used to work as an IT consultant
and as an AWS solutions architect, Developer and SysOps.
So I'm quite familiar with AWS
and I've also built websites, applications
and streaming platforms on the cloud.
I'm a veteran instructor on AWS.
I've teach about 10 certifications.
I teach about CloudFormation, Lambda, and EC2
and obviously solutions architect associate.
You can find me on various platforms on GitHub.
You can follow me on LinkedIn.
You can read about me on Medium and follow me on Twitter.
If you want to connect with me.
So very shortly, we'll have a lot more deep dive
onto what's AWS, but AWS stands for Amazon web services
and it is a cloud provider.
It provides you with servers and services that you can use
on demand and scale easily, which is a big, big difference
from what you used to do on premises in your data center
where you had to order your servers physically
and install them before being able to use them.
On the cloud, we can get them whenever we want so on demand
and we can have as many as we want so we can scale easily.
And thanks to AWS as it has been revolutionized.
And now today, AWS power some
of the biggest websites in the world.
So you will be surprised
not surprised about amazon.com obviously because well
AWS belongs to Amazon, but for Netflix
they actually don't own a single server.
They rent everything from AWS
which allows Netflix to run at scale.
So, what are we going to learn in this course? Well,
we're going to learn a lot of AWS services.
As you can see some of them are right here.
There's even more, but I didn't wanna show them.
So don't feel overwhelmed.
My goal is to teach, show to you one by one.
So I like to say that AWS is a spaghetti bowl
because all these services are linked
and interconnected with one another.
But with me we're going to entangle
this entire spaghetti bowl,
have a very good meal, and learn AWS together.
So I hope you're excited.
I'm definitely excited to teach this course
to you and I will see you in the next lecture.