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Current status
AWS has announced an SAP-C03 update. Its current SAP-C02 page lists 17 November 2026 as the last day to take SAP-C02; verify the AWS page before planning.
What you will learn
SAP-C02 is about making well-reasoned architecture choices for complex AWS environments, not memorising isolated services.
- Design for multi-account governance, identity, networking, and shared services.
- Create new architectures using security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations trade-offs.
- Improve existing workloads using the AWS Well-Architected approach.
- Plan migration and modernisation while managing dependencies and recovery needs.
Key learning areas
| Area | Practical focus |
|---|---|
| Organizational complexity | Multi-account governance, shared services, identity, connectivity, and guardrails. |
| New solutions | Choose compute, storage, data, integration, and security patterns for the workload. |
| Continuous improvement | Review the Well-Architected pillars and improve an existing design. |
| Migration | Map dependencies, data movement, cutover, and post-migration optimisation. |
| Resilience | Define recovery objectives, automation, failover, monitoring, and operational ownership. |
Architecture comparisons
| Decision | Compare | Key question |
|---|---|---|
| Account structure | AWS Organizations vs. standalone accounts | How will governance, billing, and shared services scale? |
| Application runtime | Containers vs. serverless | Who operates the runtime and how variable is demand? |
| Data store | RDS/Aurora vs. DynamoDB | Do access patterns require relational queries or high-scale key-value access? |
| Availability model | Multi-AZ vs. multi-Region | What outage, latency, data, and recovery targets apply? |
7-day study roadmap
- Read the official AWS guide and list the major architecture domains.
- Map every domain to security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations.
- Draw a multi-account architecture with identity, networking, logs, and shared services.
- Compare two service choices and explain the trade-off in plain language.
- Review migration, data, recovery, monitoring, and automation decisions.
- Work through scenario-based designs and record weak areas.
- Use the Premium PDF for structured revision, then re-check current AWS documentation.
Practical architecture checklist
For each scenario, write the business goal, users, data classification, account model, network path, recovery target, identity model, monitoring signals, operational owner, and cost controls. This turns individual AWS services into a complete architecture decision.
Related AWS resources
- AWS SAP-C02 Premium PDF — product details and structured revision resource.
- AWS SAA-C03 study guide — associate architecture learning.
- AWS SAA-C02 study guide — legacy architecture reference.
- Amazon Premium PDFs — browse AWS learning resources.
Frequently asked questions
Is this guide free?
The page is free. The older reference request depends on availability, while the SAP-C02 Premium PDF is a separate paid product.
Is SAP-C02 current?
AWS has announced SAP-C03. The current SAP-C02 page lists 17 November 2026 as the last day to take SAP-C02, so check AWS directly before planning.
Who can use this guide?
Architects, cloud engineers, and experienced AWS learners can use it to organise professional-level architecture decisions into a focused study plan.
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