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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) glossary

Terms selected for AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) based on common objective language and practice focus.

Multi-Account Strategy

Architecture approach that separates workloads by account for isolation, governance, billing, and blast-radius control.

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Landing Zone

Preconfigured multi-account AWS environment baseline including identity, logging, security, and networking controls.

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AWS Transit Gateway

Hub-and-spoke network transit service that simplifies connectivity across VPCs, accounts, and on-premises networks.

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Route 53 Routing Policy

DNS traffic management logic such as latency, failover, geolocation, weighted, and multivalue routing.

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Active-Active Multi-Region

Architecture where multiple regions concurrently serve traffic to maximize availability and reduce latency.

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Active-Passive Disaster Recovery

Design where a standby region is prepared for failover but does not serve normal production traffic.

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RTO/RPO Tradeoff

Balancing recovery time and recovery point objectives against complexity and operating cost.

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Data Consistency Model

Selection of consistency behavior such as strong, eventual, and read-after-write based on workload needs.

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S3 Multi-Region Access Point

Global access endpoint that routes S3 requests to the optimal bucket region and supports failover.

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Global Database Replication

Cross-region replication pattern for managed databases to improve resilience and geo-local reads.

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Event-Driven Integration

Decoupled architecture where services publish and consume events asynchronously.

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Strangler Pattern

Incremental modernization strategy that gradually replaces monolith functionality with new services.

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Infrastructure as Code Governance

Policy-driven control of infrastructure provisioning through templates, review gates, and compliance checks.

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Cost Allocation Tagging

Tagging strategy used to attribute cloud spend to teams, projects, environments, or products.

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Performance Efficiency Pillar

Well-Architected pillar focused on selecting and evolving compute, storage, and network resources for workload demands.

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Operational Excellence Pillar

Well-Architected pillar emphasizing observability, automation, runbooks, and continuous improvement.

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