AWS SAP Specialty case studies
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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (often called AWS SAP or SAP-C02) is AWS's advanced architecture credential. It sits above the Associate Solutions Architect certification and is aimed at people who already design and operate production workloads on AWS and now want to prove they can architect across multiple accounts, teams, and business units. The AWS SAP Specialty case studies are 5 cases and about 2,999 words.
1Multi-Account Data Lake with Cross-Region Analytics and a Hard Residency Rule
A financial-services group runs 14 AWS accounts under AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. A central data account in eu-central-1 holds an S3 data lake (~90 TB, mostly parquet) that 9 analytics accounts read.
576 words, about 3 min2Hybrid DNS and Directory for a Phased Data Center Exit
A retailer is migrating 300 on-premises workloads to AWS over 18 months. On-premises DNS is Windows AD-integrated (two domain controllers) and resolves corp.example.com ; several legacy apps hard-code those names.
484 words, about 2 min3Reducing a Noisy Batch Platform's Cost Without Breaking SLAs
A media company runs a nightly ETL fleet on 40 m5.4xlarge EC2 instances behind an Auto Scaling group, plus 12 always-on m5.2xlarge instances for a metadata API. Batch jobs take 6 hours, are CPU-bound, and are latency-tolerant (must finish by 06:00).
526 words, about 3 min4Migrating a Stateful Monolith with a Hard Cutover Window
A logistics company runs a Java monolith on 6 physical servers with an Oracle database (4 TB) and 40 TB of file shares holding scanned shipping documents. The app writes files to local disk paths and stores metadata in Oracle.
702 words, about 4 min5Event-Driven Order Pipeline That Must Not Lose or Duplicate Orders
An e-commerce company is building a new order pipeline. Orders arrive via API Gateway at up to 3,000 requests/second at peak.
711 words, about 4 min