Domain 1: Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud — 25%
Learn to design cloud-native architectures that meet application requirements for scalability, availability, performance, and maintainability. This domain covers event-driven and serverless architectures, containers, hybrid integration, networking, data and database design, and AI/ML integration using services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI.
Domain 2: Security, Compliance, and Governance — 25%
Understand how to design secure architectures using identity federation, least-privilege access, encryption, key management, multi-account governance, and compliance controls. This domain also covers data protection, regulatory requirements, responsible AI controls, and security for generative and agentic AI applications.
Domain 3: Cost-Optimized Architecture Design — 15%
Learn to select appropriate AWS pricing models, optimize compute and storage costs, reduce data transfer expenses, and implement cost allocation and monitoring. This domain also covers cost optimization for AI/ML workloads, including service-tier selection, batching, caching, and cost visibility.
Domain 4: Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity — 15%
Explore migration and modernization strategies, disaster recovery architectures, multi-Region deployments, data replication, automated failover, backup governance, and resilience testing. Learn to design architectures that meet recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), and business continuity requirements.
Domain 5: Operational Excellence and Automation — 20%
Understand how to implement infrastructure as code, CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, observability, monitoring, and automated operational responses. This domain covers deployment strategies, vulnerability scanning, centralized logging, AI/ML workload monitoring, automated remediation, scaling, and operational runbooks.