Solutions Architect
Design complex organization-wide solutions and reason through migration, governance, resilience and optimization.
Who this path is for
Bring architecture experience across AWS services. Associate-level knowledge is a useful foundation.
Study each topic, complete the applied exercise, and keep evidence of what you learned. These are original study milestones, not a claim to reproduce the full exam blueprint. Use the linked AWS exam guide to check all in-scope domains before booking.
Your learning roadmap
01Design across organizations
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Design across organizations
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Multi-account governance
- Identity federation
- Network topology
Design account boundaries for a company with multiple product teams.
Explain shared services, delegated ownership and guardrails.
02Design a new solution
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Design a new solution
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Regional resilience
- Data consistency
- Integration patterns
Compare two architectures for a business with explicit recovery goals.
Record the tradeoffs and failure modes for both options.
03Improve an existing workload
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Improve an existing workload
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Performance analysis
- Cost optimization
- Operational constraints
Review an architecture with bottlenecks and excessive fixed cost.
Prioritize improvements using measurable evidence.
04Migrate and modernize
3 focus areas · applied exercise
Migrate and modernize
3 focus areas · applied exercise- Migration strategy
- Cutover and rollback
- Hybrid dependencies
Create a staged migration plan for a three-tier application.
Include a rollback gate, replication checks and a dependency inventory.
Put the learning into practice
30 min · Beginner · guided lab
45 min · Intermediate · guided lab
Related labs cover selected skills. Completing them does not establish exam readiness.