Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures

Weight: 24% of Scored Content

This domain covers selecting high-performing and scalable solutions for storage, compute, database, networking, and data ingestion/transformation.

Task Statements

TaskDescription
Task 3.1Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
Task 3.2Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
Task 3.3Determine high-performing database solutions
Task 3.4Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
Task 3.5Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions

Key AWS Services

  • Amazon S3, EBS, EFS, FSx
  • Amazon EC2, Lambda, Fargate, Batch, EMR
  • Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS
  • Amazon CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Route 53
  • Amazon Kinesis, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, QuickSight