The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role with two or more years of hands-on experience managing and operating systems on AWS.

1. Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
2. Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
3. Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
4. Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
5. Implement cost-control strategies

1. Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS
2. Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS
3. Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, and the AWS Management Console
4. Explain and apply the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
5. Design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
6. Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise
7. Familiarity with a scripting language
8. Familiarity with Windows and Linux environments
9. Map business objectives to application/architecture requirements
10. Architect a continuous integration and deployment process

1. High Availability and Business Continuity
2. Costing
3. Deployment Management
4. Network Design
5. Data Storage & Security
6. Scalability & Elasticity
7. Cloud Migration & Hybrid Architecture