AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - SAA-C03 (E-Study & Lab Guides Included)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (Self-Paced) - SAA-C03

Fast-Track the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Journey and become certified. The Course is 100% compatible with the SAA-C03 exam. Upon mastering this course, you will be 100% to pass the exam with flying colors and more importantly, you will understand the solutions architecture to impress your potential employers and succeed in your Cloud roles. The course comes with the full slide deck, 30 design assignments, 2 full practice exams, a VS code files for all lab commands and scripts, and section quizzes. Enroll now and let us watch your cloud career take off.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the Course!
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Quick Platform Introduction
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3. Understanding Content Flow
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4. Suggested Study Plan For Best Outcomes
5. Student e-Notebook and Lab Guide Download
6. Important Notice
1. Day 0 - Comparing On-premises Data Centers vs. Cloud
2. Day 0 - Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud
3. Day 0 - Cloud Services (Offering) - IaaS , PaaS, SaaS, XaaS
  FREE PREVIEW
1. Day 1 - AWS Global Infrastructure
2. Day 1 - Creating an AWS Account
3. Day 1 - AWS Management Console Walkthrough
4. Day 1 - Exploring the AWS Free Tier - Services you can use for free in AWS.
5. Day 1 - Hands-On Lab : Creating a Cost Budget to avoid unexpected charges
6. Day 1 - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) 101
7. Day 1 - AWS IAM Identities and Best Practices
8. Day 1 - Hands-On Lab : AWS IAM Service Dashboard Walkthrough - Creating your first IAM user
9. Day 1 - Hands-On Lab : Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for Root User
10. Day 1 - Hands-On Lab : Securing your AWS account using AWS's best practices
11. Day 2 - AWS VPC Components - Internet Gateway and Virtual Private Gateway
  FREE PREVIEW
12. Day 2 - Introduction to AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Part I
13. Day 2 - AWS VPC - Public vs. Private Subnets & Hybrid Connectivity 101
14. Day 2 - Introducing the Knowledge In Action Series (Design Assignments)
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15. Day 2 - Knowledge In Action : Project 1 - Part 1 - Design an AWS Solution
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1. Day 2 - Introduction to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - The AWS Compute Service
2. Day 2 - Using SSH to connect to a Linux EC2 instance
3. Day 2 - Hands-On Lab - Creating Your First EC2 Linux Instance and Using SSH to Connect to It from Mac/Linux Machines
4. [Please Watch] Day 2 - (Old EC2 GUI) Hands-On Lab : Creating a Linux EC2 Instance
5. Day 2 - Using Windows PC to connect to a Linux EC2 instance - Using Putty Agent
6. Day 2 - Private, Public, and Elastic IP Addresses
7. Day 2 - Hands-On Lab : Private, Public, and Elastic IP Addresses
8. Day 2 - Understanding Security Groups
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9. Day 2 - Hands-On Lab : Creating and Understanding Security Groups
10. Day 2 - Understanding Network Access Control Lists (Network ACLs)
11. Day 2 - Hands-On Lab : Network Access Control Lists (Network ACLs)
12. Day 3 - Knowledge In Action : Project 1 - Part 2 - Design an AWS Solution
13. Day 3 - Encryption 101
14. Day 3 - AWS Key Management Service (KMS) 101
15. Day 3 - Hands-On Lab : Using KMS to Encrypt an EC2 Instance's Root EBS Volume
16. Day 3 - AWS Simple Storage Service 101
17. Day 3 - Hands-On Lab : AWS S3 - Create your first S3 Bucket
18. Day 3 - AWS IAM Access Keys and AWS CLI (Theory and Hands-On Lab)
19. Day 3 - AWS IAM Elements, IAM Policies and IAM Roles.
20. Day 3 - Hands-On Lab : IAM Policies and IAM Roles.
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21. Day 3 - Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) & Simple Notification Service (SNS)
22. Day 3 - Knowledge In Action : Project 1 - Part 3 - Design an AWS Solution
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23. Day 3 - Amazon CloudFront 101
24. Day 3 - Amazon Route 53 - The DNS Service 101
25. Day 3 - Knowledge In Action : Project 1 - Part 4 - Design an AWS Solution
26. Day 3 - Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) 101 (Theory and Hands-On Lab)
27. Day 3 - Knowledge In Action : Project 1 - Part 5 - Design an AWS Solution
28. Day 3 - Section Quiz - AWS Services Part II
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1. Day 4 - Understanding Monolithic vs. Microservices Application Architecture
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2. Day 4 - High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
3. Day 4 - Knowledge In Action : Project 1 - Part 6 - Design an AWS Solution
4. Day 4 - Amazon CloudWatch 101
5. Day 4 - Amazon CloudTrail
6. Day 4 - Hands-On Lab : Amazon CloudTrail
7. Day 4 - Disaster Recovery (DR) & DR Approaches in AWS
8. Day 4 - Section Quiz - Key Architecture Pillars
1. Day 4 - NAT Instance and NAT Gateway - Explained
2. Day 4 - Hands-On Lab : NAT instance and NAT Gateway
3. Day 4 - Bastion Hosts
4. Day 4 - Hands-On Lab : Bastion Hosts
5. Day 4 - Knowledge In Action : Project 2 Part 2 - Design an AWS Solution
6. Day 4 - VPC Peering & Transit Gateway
7. Day 4 - Hands-On Lab : VPC Peering and Transit Gateway
8. Day 5 - VPC Endpoints
9. Day 5 - Hands-On Lab : VPC Endpoints
10. Day 5 - Knowledge In Action : Project 2 - Part 2 - Design an AWS Solution
11. Day 5 - IPV6 Egress-Only Internet Gateway
12. Day 5 - VPC FlowLogs and HoL
13. Day 5 - AWS Managed Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
14. Day 5 - Amazon Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway
15. Day 5 - Section Quiz - VPC and Hybrid Connectivity
1. Day 5 - EC2 Instance Types and Instance Lifecycle
2. Day 5 - EC2 instance Metadata and User Data
3. Day 5 - EC2 Instance Launch Type (Purchase Options)
4. Day 5 - EC2 Spot Instances and Hands On Lab
5. Day 5 - EC2 Instance Placement Groups
6. Day 6 - EC2 Instance Monitoring
7. Day 6 - Elastic Block Store Types
8. Day 6 - EBS Snapshots Operations and Encryption
9. Sec 5 Lec 9 EBS HoL Snapshots Encryption Copying Sharing
10. Day 6 - Hands-On Lab : AMI Copying Sharing and Encryption
11. Day 6 - EBS RAID and AWS Batch
12. Day 6 - AWS Lightsail
13. Day 6 - AWS Outposts
14. Day 6 - VMware Cloud on AWS
15. Day 6 - Section Quiz - EC2 and EBS
1. Day 6 - Elastic Load Balancing - Target Groups, Listeners, and Health Check
2. Day 6 - Hands-On Labs - ELB Target Groups
3. Day 6 - ELB Cross Zone Load Balancing and ELB Design for High Availability
4. Day 6 - ELB and Security Groups
5. Day 6 - ELB and Digital Certificates - Encryption In-Transit
6. Day 7 - Knowledge In Action : Project 3
7. Day 7 - ELB Client IP, Monitoring, Scaling and PFS Support
8. Day 7 - Hands-On Lab : ELB - Client IP Address
9. Day 7 - Application Load Balancer - Specific Features
10. Day 7 - ALB Desync Mitigation
11. Day 7 - Network Load Balancer (NLB) and Endpoint Services
12. Day 7 - Auto Scaling
13. Day 7 - Hands-On Lab : Auto Scaling - Manual Scaling
14. Day 7 - Auto Scaling - Launch Templates and Scaling Policies
15. Day 7 - Hands-On Lab : Launch Templates and Scaling Policies
16. Day 7 - Knowledge In Action : Project 4
17. Day 7 - Auto Scaling - Lifecycle Hooks and Timers
18. Day 7 - Section Quiz - ELB and Auto Scaling
1. Day 8 - RDS - Multi AZ and Backups (Automated and Manual)
2. Day 8 - Hands-On Lab : Snapshots and Manual Backup
3. Day 8 - RDS Scaling and Read Replicas & RDS Snapshot Operations and Security
4. Day 8 - Hands-On Lab : Read Replicas, Snapshot Operations, and Security
5. Day 8 - Amazon RDS Cross Region Automated Backups
6. Day 8 - RDS Custom for Oracle and MS SQL
7. Day 8 - Amazon RDS-multi-AZ DB cluster Deployment MySQL and PostgreSQL
8. Day 8 - Amazon RDS Proxy
9. Day 8 - Knowledge In Action : Project 5 - Design A Database Tier
10. Day 8 - Amazon Aurora
11. Day 8 - Hands-On Lab: Amazon Aurora
12. Day 8 - Aurora and RDS Proxy
13. Day 8 - Amazon Aurora Serverless
14. Day 8 - Aurora Machine Learning
15. Day 8 - Knowledge In Action : Project 6
16. Day 8 - Amazon Redshift
17. Day 8 - Section Quiz - RDS , Aurora, and Redshift
1. Day 8 - NoSQL and Introduction to DynamoDB
2. Day 8 - Hands-On Lab : DynamoDB
3. Day 8 - Amazon DynamoDB-Capacity Modes Auto Scaling and Table Class
4. Day 8 - DynamoDB - Advanced Features
5. Day 8 - Knowledge In Action : Project 7
6. Day 8 - Database Transaction Models - ACID vs. BASE
7. Day 8 - ElastiCache
8. Day 8 - ElastiCache - Caching Strategies
9. Day 8 - Amazon DocumentDB and Neptune (GraphDB)
10. Amazon KeySpaces
11. Amazon Quantum Ledger DB
12. Amazon Timestream
13. Day 8 - Section Quiz - NoSQL Databases in AWS
14. Day 8 - ElastiCache for Redis-Sorted Sets and Global Data Stores
1. Before Mid Course Exam
2. Day 9 - An Assessment Test - Covers All The Previous Sections - Good Luck!
1. Day 10 - Introduction To The Second Half Of The Course
2. Day 10 - IAM - Identity-based Policies
3. Day 10 - Hands-On Lab : Identity-based Policies
4. Day 10 - IAM - Security Token Service (STS) and IAM Roles
5. Day 10 - Hands-On Lab : AssumeRole and Cross Account Access
6. Day 10 - Cross Account Access with External ID
7. Day 10 - IAM - Resource-based Policies, Permissions Boundary & Evaluation Logic
8. Day 10 - Hands-On Lab : Resource-based Policies and Permissions Boundary
9. Day 10 - Knowledge In Action : Project 8 - Design an IAM Identity Policy
10. Day 10 - Section Quiz - IAM Intermediate
1. Day 10 - S3 Overview and Data Consistency Model
2. Day 10 - S3 Tiered Storage Classes
3. Day 10 - S3 Storage Classes- Lifecycle Policies
4. Day 10 - S3 Intelligent- Tiering Class
5. Day 10 - S3 Glacier- Archiving Classes
6. Day 10 - Hands-On Lab : Storage Classes and Lifecycle Policies
7. Day 10 - S3 Multi-Part Upload
8. Day 10 - S3 Encryption At Rest and In-Transit
9. Day 10 - S3 Server-Side Encryption SSE-S3
10. Day 10 - S3 Server-Side Encryption SSE-KMS
11. Day 10 - S3 SSE - Customer Provided Keys SSE- C
12. Day 10 - S3 Buckets - Default Encryption
13. Day 10 - Hands-On Lab : Server Side Encryption (SSE) and Object Copy
14. Day 10 - S3 Versioning and Cross (and Same) Region Replication [CRR and SRR]
15. Day 10 - Hands-On Lab : S3 Versioning and Cross Region Replication
16. Day 11 - S3 Object and Glacier Vault Lock - and Hands-On Lab
17. Day 11 - S3 Static Website Hosting and Hands-On Lab
18. Day 11 - S3 Features : Pre-Signed URLs, Transfer Acceleration and Requester Pays
19. Day 11 - Hands-On Lab : PreSigned URLs, Transfer Acceleration and Requester Pays
20. Day 10 - Understanding S3 Access Management and Object Ownership
21. Day 11 - Hands-On Lab : S3 Access Management ACLs
22. Day 11 - S3 Bucket Policy Examples
23. Day 11 - Hands-On Lab : S3 Access Control (Bucket Policy Examples and ACLs)
24. Day 11 - S3 Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
25. Day 11 - Knowledge In Action - Project 9
26. Day 11 - S3 & Glacier SELECT, Performance Considerations, and AWS Transfer Family
27. Day 11 - S3 Monitoring Notification and Server Access Logs
28. Day 11 - S3 Additional Features
29. Day 11 - Knowledge In Action - Projects 10 & 11
30. Day 11 - Section Quiz - Simple Storage Service (S3)
1. Day 11 - CloudFront Deep Dive
2. Day 11 - CloudFront - Serving Private Content using CloudFront
3. Day 11 - CloudFront Geo Restriction (GeoBlocking)
4. Day 11 - Hands-On Lab : CloudFront
5. Day 11 - CloudFront Caching Layers
6. Day 11 - CloudFront - Monitoring , Logs , Access , Classes and Pricing
7. Day 12 - Amazon Route 53 - The AWS DNS Service
8. Day 12 - Hands-On Lab : Amazon Route 53 Lab Setup
9. Day 12 - Hands-On Lab : Alias Records and Simple Routing Policy
10. Day 12 - Hands-On Lab : Route 53 Failover and Latency Routing Policies
11. Day 12 - Route 53 Routing Policies (cont.) & Route 53 Resolver
12. Day 12 - Hands-On Lab : Weighted, Geolocation,& MultiValue Answer Routing
13. Day 12 - IP-Based Routing For Route53
14. Day 12 - Knowledge In Action : Project 12
15. Day 12 - Global Accelerator
16. Day 12 - Hands-On Lab : Global Accelerator
17. Day 12 - Knowledge In Action : Project 13
18. Day 12 - Section Quiz - CloudFront, Route 53, and Global Accelerator
1. Day 13 - AWS Lambda
2. Day 13 - Hands-On Lab : AWS Lambda
3. Day 13 - AWS Lambda- Concurrent Execution
4. Day 13 - AWS Lambda- Function URL
5. Day 13 - S3 Object Lambda
6. Day 13 - Lambda@Edge
7. Day 13 - API Gateway
8. Day 13 - Hands-On Lab : API Gateway
9. Day 13 - Knowledge In Action : Project 14
10. Day 13 - Serverless Application Repository
11. Day 13 - Section Quiz - Serverless - AWS Lambda and API Gateway
1. Day 13 - Elastic File System (EFS)
2. Day 13 - Hands-On Lab : EFS
3. EFS Storage Classes
4. Day 13 - EFS Additional Features
5. Day 13 - Amazon FSx
6. Day 13 - Hands-On Lab : Amazon FSx
7. Day 13 - Storage Gateway
8. Day 13 - Hands-On Lab : Storage Gateway
9. Day 13 - Knowledge In Action : Project 15
10. Day 14 - FSx File Gateway
11. Day 14 - Snow Family
12. Day 14 - Hands-On Lab : Snow Family
13. Day 14 - AWS Backup and Datasync
14. Day 14 - Section Quiz - Storage Services in AWS
15. Day 14 - Knowledge In Action : Project 16
1. Day 14 - Introduction to Containers and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
2. Day 14 - Hands-On Lab : Docker Image and Amazon ECR
3. Day 14 - Amazon ECS - Features and Use Cases
4. Day 14 - Hands-On Lan : Amazon ECS
5. Day 14 - Amazon AppRunner
6. Day 14 - ECS Anywhere
7. Day 14 - Knowledge In Action : Project 17
8. Day 14 - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
9. Day 14 - EKS Distro
10. Day 14 - EKS Anywhere
11. Day 14 - AWS Proton
12. Day 14 - Section Quiz - Container Services in AWS
1. Day 15 - Amazon Simple Queue Service - Deep Dive
2. Day 15 - Hands-On Lab : SQS
3. Day 15 - SQS Temporary Queues
4. Day 15 - Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Deep Dive
5. Day 15 - Hands-On Lab : Amazon SNS
6. Day 15 - Amazon MQ and Step Functions
7. Day 15 - Amazon AppFlow
8. Day 15 - Knowledge In Action: Project 18
9. Day 15 - Section Quiz: Application Integration, Notification & Messaging Services
1. Day 16 - CloudWatch and CloudWatch Alarms
2. Day 16 - Hands-On Lab: CloudWatch Alarms
3. Day 16 - CloudWatch Logs
4. Day 16 - Hands-On Lab: CloudWatch Logs
5. Day 16 - Amazon EventBridge (The Successor of CloudWatch Events)
6. Day 16 - Hands-On Lab: Amazon EventBridge
7. Day 16 - Section Quiz - Management and Monitoring in AWS
1. Day 17 - AWS Organizations
2. Day 17 - AWS Control Tower
3. Day 17 - Hands-On Lab : AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies
4. Day 17 - AWS CloudFormation
5. Day 17 - Hands-On Lab : AWS CloudFormation Stack
6. Day 17 - Elastic Beanstalk
7. Day 17 - Hands-On Lab : Elastic Beanstalk
8. Day 17 - AWS OpsWorks
9. Day 17 - Knowledge In Action : Project 19
10. Day 18 - Systems Manager (SSM) and Parameter Store
11. Day 18 - Secrets Manager
12. Day 18 - Hands-On Lab : Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
13. Day 18 - AWS Config
14. Day 18 - Hands-On Lab : AWS Config
15. Day 18 - Knowledge In Action : Project 20
16. Day 18 - Trusted Advisor
17. Day 18 - AWS Health Dashboard and AWS Service Health Dashboard
18. Day 18 - Compute Optimizer
19. Day 18 - License Manager
20. Day 18 - AWS Service Catalog
21. Day 18 - Service Quotas
22. Day 18 - Amazon Managed Service For Prometheus AMP
23. Day 18 - Section Quiz - Governance, Deployment Automation, and Operations in AWS
1. Day 19 - AWS CloudHSM (Hardware Security Module)
2. Day 19 - AWS Shield (Standard and Advanced) for DDoS Protection in AWS
3. Day 19 - Hands-On Lab : AWS Shield Advanced
4. Day 19 - AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
5. Day 19 - Hands-On Lab : AWS WAF
6. Day 19 - Knowledge In Action : Project 21
7. Day 19 - Amazon GuardDuty
8. Day 19 - Amazon Inspector
9. Day 19 - Amazon Macie
10. Day 19 - Knowledge In Action : Project 22
11. Day 20 - Amazon Cognito
12. Day 20 - AWS Directory Services
13. Day 20 - Knowledge In Action : Project 23
14. Day 20 - IAM Identity Center (Formerly - AWS Single Sign-On (SSO))
15. Day 20 - AWS Audit Manager
16. Day 20 - AWS Certificate Manager
17. Day 20 - Amazon Detective
18. Day 20 - AWS Security Hub
19. Day 21 - AWS Firewall Manager
20. Day 21 - AWS Network Firewall
21. Day 21 - AWS and Defence In-Depth
22. Day 21 - KMS Multi-Region Keys
23. Day 21 - Section Quiz - Security, Identity, and Compliance Services.
1. Day 22 - Amazon Redshift Spectrum
2. Day 22 - Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
3. Day 22 - Amazon Athena
4. Day 22 - Hands-On Lab : Amazon Athena
5. Day 22 - AWS Glue
6. Day 22 - Hands-On Lab : AWS Glue
7. Day 22 - Knowledge In Action : Project 24
8. Day 22 - Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
9. Day 22 - Hands-On "Super" Lab : Kinesis Data Streams
10. Day 23 - Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose & Data Analytics
11. Day 23 - Hands-On "Super" Lab : Kinesis Data Firehose
12. Day 23 - Amazon QuickSight
13. Day 23 - AWS Data Pipeline
14. Day 23 - Knowledge In Action : Project 25
15. Day 23 - Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming For Apache Kafka)
16. Day 23 - AWS Lake Formation
17. Day 23 - AWS Data Exchange
18. Day 23 - Section Quiz - Analytics Services in AWS
1. Day 24 - Amazon Forecast
2. Day 24 - Amazon Sagemaker
3. Day 24 - Amazon Rekognition
4. Day 24 - Amazon Polly
5. Day 24 - Amazon Lex
6. Day 24 - Amazon Connect
7. Day 24 - Amazon Comprehend & Amazon Comprehend Medical
8. Day 24 - Amazon Transcribe
9. Day 24 - Amazon Translate
10. Day 25 - Amazon Alexa
11. Day 25 - Amazon Kendra
12. Day 25 - Amazon Textract
13. Day 25 - Amazon Personalize
14. Day 25 - Amazon Fraud Detector
1. Day 26 - AWS Device Farm
2. Day 26 - AWS Amplify
3. Day 26 - AWS AppSync
4. Day 26 - Amazon Pinpoint
1. Day 26 - Amazon Application Discovery Service
2. Day 26 - Elastic Disaster Recovery Service(AWS DRS)
3. Day 26 - Application Migration Service(MGN) (CloudEndure migration )
4. Day 26 - AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
5. Day 27 - AWS Server Migration (SMS)
6. Day 27 - AWS Migration Hub
7. Day 27 - AWS Migration Strategies - The 7R's
1. Day 27 - The Well Architected Framework
2. Day 27 - Section Quiz - The Well Architected Framework
1. Day 27 - Amazon OpenSearch
2. Day 27 - Elastic Transcoder
3. Day 27 - Amazon AppSync
4. Day 28 - Amazon WorkSpaces
5. Day 28 - Amazon WorkDocs
6. Day 28 - AWS X-Ray
7. Day 28 - AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
8. Day 28 - AWS Cost Explorer
9. Day 28 - Cost Management
10. Day 28 - AWS Budgets
11. Day 28 - AWS Artifact
12. Day 28 - Section Quiz - Additional Services
1. Day 29 - Exam Knowledge Section Introduction
2. Day 29 - Exam Blue Print - What To Expect
3. Day 29 - Full Length Mock Exam I (Study Mode)
4. Day 30 - Full Length Exam I (Exam Mode: 65 Questions - 72% Passing Score - Randomized Qs - Duration 130 minutes [Time Yourself])
5. Day 31 - Full Length Mock Exam II (Study Mode)
6. Day 32 - Full Length Exam II (Exam Mode: 65 Questions - 72% Passing Score - Randomized Qs - Duration 130 minutes [Time Yourself])
7. Day 32 - AWS Exam Taking Strategy - Please Watch
8. Day 32 - Schedule The Exam + 30 Minutes Extra Time (ESL + 30) + 50% Exam Fee Discount

About this course

364 lessons
32 hours of video content
Intermediate
Hands-On Labs
Study and Lab Guides

Instructor

Eissa Abousherif

Lead - Consulting, Architecture, Training, and Content Development

A passionate cloud and DevOps architect, consultant, content developer, and trainer with 20+ years of IT experience, holding many industry certificates from AWS, Hashicorp, Azure, and Cisco to name a few. During his career, Eissa led consulting, training, Pre and post-sales activities for projects totaling USD250M+ in TCV across multiple industry verticals. Eissa had the privilege of working for IBM, Cisco and Global knowledge in the USA, Canada, and Dubai. Eissa’s passion is focused on enabling enterprises and professionals to prosper and reach their technology adoption goals. Eissa has authored a number of the highest-rated AWS courses on the internet, both at the associate and professional levels. Moreover, he trained 110,000+ learners from 175+ countries many are leading successful Cloud and DevOps careers today.