Explore the variety of services offered by Amazon—including available DevOps services and analytics engines—and review AWS design best practices as you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C01) exam. Instructor Tom Carpenter helps to familiarize you with various AWS media creation, management, and distribution services; security services; and ElastiCache, the fully managed, in-memory data store and cache service. He then shares strategies for achieving operational excellence with AWS, going over tactics for resilient, performant, and secure design, as well as cost optimization. Along the way, he demonstrates how to apply these best practices in real-world scenarios.