When building low-latency, high-throughput applications without fault tolerance requirements, understanding the nuances between Cluster, Spread, and Partition placement groups is critical. This drill explores why network topology, not just instance type, determines success.
Migrate a legacy SFTP workflow to AWS with Amazon S3 storage while keeping on-prem Microsoft AD authentication. The lowest-ops path is AWS Transfer Family using Directory Service AD Connector for identity federation.
A leading manufacturing firm needed to redesign their sensor data ingestion to avoid data loss after on-premises Kafka outages. This drill explores managed AWS streaming and IoT services to balance resilience, cost, and operational overhead.
When network appliances fail in auto-scaling groups, static routes become stale. This SAP-C02 scenario explores the orchestration pattern combining custom metrics, event-driven automation, and Lambda-based route reconciliation—a real-world decision between operational complexity and infrastructure reliability.
A financial analytics firm wastes 40% of EC2 costs on idle time. This drill analyzes four architectures—Lambda, SQS+ASG, containerized polling, and ECS Fargate—to identify the optimal event-driven solution balancing FinOps impact and operational overhead.
A mid-size enterprise plans to migrate a critical Lambda + Aurora application from an existing AWS account to a new AWS account. This drill explores options balancing downtime, security, and FinOps impact.
How do you enforce developer spending limits in AWS Organizations without blocking innovation? This drill analyzes the critical difference between SCPs (preventive), IAM policies (identity-based), and AWS Budgets (reactive) for cost control—a common SAP-C02 trap.
A high-level summary: Migrating from traditional SSH to modern session management while balancing security, audit requirements, and operational complexity for a startup’s EC2 fleet.
Learn why RDS Read Replicas defeat Multi-AZ for read scaling, and how to size them correctly. A critical SAA-C03 scenario analyzing read traffic offloading strategies.