AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

This post highlights my journey and achievements in earning the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification. It reflects my ability to design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS, with a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, cost optimization, and security best practices.

Key Features

• 🧱 Well-Architected Framework Implementation – Designs aligned with AWS best practices across reliability, performance, security, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
• 🛡 Secure Architecture – Implementation of IAM policies, encryption, VPC configurations, and network access control.
• 🚀 Scalable Infrastructure – Use of Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and decoupled services with SQS/SNS for resilient architecture.
• 💰 Cost Optimization – Right-sizing instances, leveraging Reserved and Spot Instances, and monitoring with AWS Cost Explorer.
• ⚙️ DevOps & Automation – Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with CloudFormation and Terraform for consistent, repeatable deployments.

Technologies Used

• AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation
• Tools: Terraform, GitHub Actions, AWS CLI, Visual Studio Code
• Architectural Models: Multi-tier architecture, serverless design patterns, microservices

Possibilities for Improvement

• Get more certifications, such as AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, etc.
• Implement more hands-on projects focused on hybrid and multi-cloud architecture
• Explore advanced networking concepts like Transit Gateway and AWS Global Accelerator
• Extend knowledge with AWS Well-Architected Tool and cost modeling

Explore my portfolio and feel free to get in touch if you’d like to collaborate, share ideas, or discuss a project!