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Part 2: AWS Certified Solutions Architect SAA C03 [2025] (Udemy.com)

Comprehensive Associate Exam Mastery: In-Depth Learning of Serverless Capabilities with Hands-on Labs, Quiz

4.8
715 reviews

Created by: Chandra Lingam

Last updated October 2025

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This is the second half of a two-part AWS Solutions Architect Associate series, and it assumes you have finished Part 1. Where Part 1 handled networking, storage, compute and security, this one moves on to queues, notifications, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, a range of databases, containers, CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk. The listing shows about nine hours of content, so it works as a focused add-on rather than a single course for the whole exam. It also covers architectural patterns and disaster recovery options.

Reviewers keep coming back to Chandra Lingam's teaching. They call it clear, well organized and deeper than other AWS courses, with demos and tests after each topic that help line up with exam questions. One student reports a 920 on the associate exam and plans to go on to the developer track because of the DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS and SNS lectures. The complaints are mostly about age. Some demos do not match the current AWS console, one reviewer could not finish several on a new free tier account, another found the pace slow, and a third saw no changes between 2017 and a repeat in 2018.

The listing shows a 2025 update and highlights newer Fargate and Aurora lectures, though the sharper criticism in the sample comes from earlier years, so expect some older screens. With a 4.8 rating from 715 reviews, it is a solid pick for anyone who has done Part 1 and wants hands-on depth on serverless, messaging and data services. Newcomers should start with Part 1 first.

Best forPeople who finished Part 1 and want hands-on SQS, SNS, Lambda, Kinesis and database lectures before the associate exam.
Skip it ifYou have not taken Part 1, or you need demos that match today's AWS console exactly.

Pros

  • Lectures on SQS, SNS, Kinesis and DynamoDB are called deeper than other AWS courses
  • Tests after each topic help students line up with real exam questions
  • Hands-on demos for Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation and containers
  • One reviewer reports a 920 on the associate exam after taking the lectures

Cons

  • Some demos reportedly do not match the current AWS console and can confuse
  • Certain labs may stall on a new free tier account because of AWS limits
  • Pace feels slow to some, and older reviews say the content barely changed
Next for me is CDA and once again your lectures on DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS and SNS are great! Much more in depth than most other courses, and lots of hands-on sessions which really helped.
Dan Wheatley, a student

Listed for all levels, but it requires Part 1 and some application architecture experience, so it suits people past the basics.

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What you will learn

  • Gain Solid Understanding of Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform
  • Ace Certification Exam Questions on Architectural Patterns, Queuing, Notification, Server less Compute, Databases, API Gateway, Disaster Recovery and more

How it compares

Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 95% of them
  • Reviews715#130 of 236 by number of reviews
  • Length9 hoursshorter than 50% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2025more recently than 63% of them

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Course Description

*** NEW: Fargate Serverless Containers, Aurora, Aurora Serverless RDBMS lectures and Hands-On-Labs are now live ***

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Guide & Question Bank provides a structured introduction to AWS and prepares you to get certified at the Associate Level (Architect, Sysops Admin, Developer).
This is the second and concluding part of the two-part course series on getting certified at Associate Level. (NOTE: For Part 1, Look for the course 1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Guide & Question Bank)
In Part 1 of this course, we learned about core services that form the foundation of AWS Cloud Platform. That included networking, storage, compute, automatic scaling, security, monitoring and tools for estimating cost of a solution.
In this course, we will start with services that offer Queueing, Notification and Email capabilities. Then we will focus on Lambda server-less compute capability provided by AWS and API Gateway to provide RESTful front end for your Lambda functions. AWS also provides a range of Cloud Database offerings including RDS, NoSQL, In-Memory, Columnar, ElasticSearch and we will explore what their strengths and weaknesses are. Learn how to manage streaming data with Amazon Kinesis (Stream, Firehose, Analytics). Learn about Amazon ECS, Containers and Dockers. CloudFormation lectures teach how to manage your infrastructure as code. Elastic Beanstalk gives an overview on how you can quickly deploy your application and manage infrastructure automatically. This course also introduces programmatic integration of AWS Services from your application.
As we learn these topics, we will look into architectural best practices and patterns for building cost-effective and highly scalable solutions. We will also look at disaster recovery options that are enabled by AWS.Who this course is for:
  • Get certified at Solutions Architect - Associate Level
  • Learn AWS Cloud Platform from scratch
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Instructor Details

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Chandra Lingam is an expert on Amazon Web Services, mission critical systems and machine learning. He has a rich background in systems development in both traditional IT data center and Cloud based infrastructure. For those new to AWS, he is uniquely positioned to guide you to become an expert in AWS Cloud Platform.
Prior to becoming a full-time course developer and instructor, he spent 15 years at Intel, developing and managing systems that handled hundreds of terabytes of worldwide factory data.
He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, Tempe and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai

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Reviews

4.8

715 ratings on Udemy

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By Arun Ramakrishnan

Clear Cut explanation of the Core AWS services. A Picture perfect course to not only clear AWS certification but also to get a good hands on grip of the AWS services.

By Clifford James

Very clear and well-structured content. I have take other AWS trainings and this one is the best so far, bar none.

By Jerry 2018

1) Some demos don't match current AWS interface at all. Obviously AWS changes so fast that one might expect some differences between the demos and the real interface, but the course at points is lagging too far behind, so far that it gets confusing at times.

2) Many of the demos you can't do with a (new) free tier account because of changes in the last 6 months. It happens often that I can do a demo till halfway to find out that because of the limitations of the free tier account I can't continue. Obviously this is not the fault of the author of the course, but it makes these demos pretty useless (and frustrating).

3) While the references to some Re:invent videos and other material are niece, it should be mentioned whether they serve as optional background or as necessary study material (since they are often quite lengthy; 60 min or so).

By Padmaraj Manne

Yes..It was good to learn the basic properly and its nicely feeded by Mr Chandra Lingam

By Arun Krishnamoorthy

Great course. Well organized. Chandra is a great teacher. He teaches the basic concepts and nicely integrates it with the AWS concepts and features helping you understand it fully.

By Naresh

Good course to learn SNS,SQS,LAMBDA,KINESIS,Cloud formation,elastic baeanstalk and ECS etc....

By Sandeep Naidu Rathina

Great Course. Chandra is a great instructor.

I really appreciate the way the course is designed.

Both part-1 and Part-2 have almost all the concepts required to complete certification.

All the training videos are having required information and also presented well.

Especially the tests that come after completion of each concept are very helpful to sync up with certification questions.

I spent around 100 hours. Practiced demos, gone through Amazon Invent videos as specified in the training videos.

With the help of Chandra lectures and Udemy, I have completed certification successfully.

Suggest to include ECS concepts.

Also looking forward for Chandra training videos on AWS SysOps Administrator as well.

By Ash Thomas

I purchased both his courses last year & Instructor is knowledge . I had done both his courses in Feb2017, May 2017 and they were excellent at that time . I re-did this course again in July 2018 but i found its the same course without nothing new updated. I checked in Udemy similar courses and found tons of new information in their courses for AWS exams. I certainly believe both his Part 1 and Part 2 needs a full update as this course may not address the current exam requirements . I really consider this course still as a great source of information for a home lab and will be happy to raise the rating once the new updates/ GUI changes are done.

By Pravin Rangnekar

Very good contents, excellent demos. Great quizzes.

By Das Nobel

Good course with demos. Helped me understand the concepts in detail.

By Bareddy Sreenivasula Reddy

Explanation and covering topics are very well. This is very useful to start working on AWS services.

By Clifford James

Very clear and well-structured content. I have take other AWS trainings and this one is the best so far, bar none.

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Overall Score : 96 / 100

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