Study lab

Nightly study guides

Read the guide first, then take the quiz. Guides are rendered from HTML/study-lab/night-*-*.md at build time — same repo folder as the lab scripts and quiz JSON.

• Night 11: ELB theory (ALB vs NLB vs GWLB)

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  night-11-elb-theory.md

• Night 12: EventBridge schedule → ECS RunTask

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  night-12-eventbridge-schedule.md

• Night 13: SQS decoupling (completion queue + DLQ)

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  night-13-sqs-decoupling.md

• Night 14: SNS fan-out (failure alerts + subscriptions)

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  night-14-sns-fanout.md

• Night 15: RDS + Aurora deep dive

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  night-15-rds-aurora.md

• Night 16: Lab 2D part 1: Aurora Serverless v2 study stack

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  night-16-aurora-lab.md

• Night 17: Lab 2D part 2: Lambda stats uploader → Aurora

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  night-17-lambda-aurora.md

• Night 18: DynamoDB resilience: PITR + Streams + stub stream Lambda

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  night-18-dynamodb-resilience.md

• Night 19: DR + AWS Backup: RTO/RPO and centralized backup policies

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  night-19-dr-aws-backup.md

• Night 20: Migration & Transfer: DMS + S3 staging for database moves

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  night-20-dms-s3-migration.md

• Night 21: Hybrid networking: VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink

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  night-21-hybrid-networking.md

• Night 22: Week 3 review: databases, DR, migration, hybrid networking

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  night-22-week-3-review.md

• Night 23: Lab 3A: ElastiCache (Redis) cache-aside in front of Aurora

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  night-23-elasticache-redis.md

• Night 24: Lab 3B: Athena on Iceberg — SQL analytics on S3

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  night-24-athena-iceberg.md

• Night 25: Lab 3C: Route 53 routing policies + health checks

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  night-25-route53-routing.md

• Night 26: CloudFront + API performance (cache behaviors, throttling, dashboard)

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  night-26-cloudfront-api-caching.md

• Night 27: EC2 + EBS + Spot (volume types, Iceland pipeline cost)

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  night-27-ec2-ebs-spot.md

• Night 28: Integration services (EventBridge vs SQS vs Kinesis vs Step Functions)

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  night-28-integration-services.md

• Night 29: Week 4 review: storage, analytics, edge, compute, integration

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  night-29-week-4-review.md

• Night 30: Lab 4A: S3 lifecycle + cost (storage classes, Cost Explorer, Budgets)

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  night-30-s3-lifecycle-cost.md

• Night 31: Lab 4B: Fargate right-sizing (CPU/memory, Spot vs On-Demand, Compute Optimizer)

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  night-31-fargate-rightsizing-cost.md

• Night 32: Lab 4C: Step Functions capstone (ECS → SQS → Lambda → SNS)

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  night-32-stepfunctions-capstone.md

• Night 33: Architecture write-up (GSA full stack + Well-Architected)

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  night-33-architecture-writeup.md

• Night 34: Week 5 review + practice exam block

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  night-34-week-5-review.md

• Night 35: Exam stem method (how Solutions Architect questions actually work)

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  night-35-exam-stem-method.md

• Night 36: Keywords: storage + hybrid

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  night-36-storage-keywords.md

• Night 37: Keywords: database, high availability, disaster recovery, migration

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  night-37-database-keywords.md

• Night 38: Keywords: security service selection

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  night-38-security-keywords.md

• Night 39: Keywords: compute, networking, integration

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  night-39-compute-network-keywords.md

• Night 40: Practice Exam 2 + keyword post-mortem

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  night-40-practice-exam-2.md