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Understand → Build → Practice → Certify → Apply
#10WeeksOfAWS is a free, community-driven challenge that takes you from zero to AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) ready in ten weeks — one topic cluster per week, mapped to the official exam guide (Domains 1–4).
It's inspired by #90DaysOfDevOps, but it runs weekly instead of daily. AWS is best learned by going deep on a group of services, building something with them, and then explaining it back to someone. A week gives you room to do all three. It's the community companion to the live course AWS: Zero To Hero [2026 Solutions Architect Associate].
The idea is simple: don't just watch — build it in your own AWS account, then share what you learned. After ten weeks you'll have a public trail of work and an exam-ready understanding.
Every week has one theme (roughly two live sessions' worth of material) and a README with everything you need:
| Section | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Theory & Concepts | The must-know ideas, and why they matter for the exam and the job |
| Hands-on Labs | Build it yourself in the console or CLI — each lab ends with a cleanup step so you don't get billed |
| Carry-Forward | One cross-cutting topic (security, observability, or cost) introduced early, so the final week is revision rather than cramming |
| Exam Domain Mapping | Which SAA-C03 domain the week covers, plus a few sample questions |
| Learn in Public | A post you can adapt for LinkedIn, X, or GitHub |
For deeper material, each week points to the matching module in the full AWS Zero-to-Hero (SAA-C03) study repo (available to enrolled learners).
Every week, learners complete the hands-on task, document proof of work, and submit it through GitHub. Public posting is part of the challenge because it builds consistency and accountability.
- Star and fork this repo so you always have the weekly plan.
- Read the week and do the labs in your own AWS account (Free Tier wherever possible).
- Add your work under that week's submission folder in your fork.
- Open a pull request to this repo for weekly review.
- Post what you learned on LinkedIn and tag the community.
Read the full process here: SUBMISSION_GUIDE.md.
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Consistency beats intensity here. One honest weekly submission plus one public post keeps you accountable and slowly grows your network.
The live batch runs Sat + Sun, 8:00–10:00 PM IST, starting 04 July 2026. You can also work through it self-paced at any time.
| Week | Theme | SAA-C03 Domain | Dates (2026) | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloud Foundations + IAM (users, groups, policies) | D1 · Secure (30%) | Jul 4–5 | week-01 |
| 2 | IAM Roles/STS + Organizations, SCPs & Identity Center | D1 · Secure | Jul 11–12 | week-02 |
| 3 | VPC Foundations + Security, NAT & Endpoints | D1 / D2 | Jul 18–19 | week-03 |
| 4 | EC2 Essentials + EBS & Pricing Models | D2 (26%) / D4 (20%) | Jul 25–26 | week-04 |
| 5 | Auto Scaling + Load Balancing (Mini-Mock 1) | D2 / D3 | Aug 1–2 | week-05 |
| 6 | S3 Foundations/Security + Replication, EFS & FSx | D1 / D3 (24%) | Aug 8–9 | week-06 |
| 7 | RDS & Aurora + DynamoDB & ElastiCache | D2 / D3 | Aug 15–16 | week-07 |
| 8 | Route 53, CloudFront & WAF + Hybrid & DR (Mini-Mock 2) | D2 / D3 | Aug 22–23 | week-08 |
| 9 | Messaging (SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis) + Serverless (Lambda/API GW/Step Functions) | D2 / D3 | Aug 30–31 | week-09 |
| 10 | Containers & Security Services + Analytics, Observability & Cost (Exam Sprint) | D1–D4 · Full Mock | Sep 6–7 | week-10 |
SAA-C03 domain weights: Design Secure (30%), Design Resilient (26%), Design High-Performing (24%), Design Cost-Optimized (20%).
This challenge is the free companion to the paid live cohort — 40 hours of live, hands-on, project-driven training by Gangadhar Ure (AWS SAA + SAP + CKA, 12+ years) and Shubham (TrainWithShubham).
- Course: AWS: Zero To Hero [2026 Solutions Architect Associate]
- Join the live batch: https://bit.ly/aws-saa-live
- Use the AWS Free Tier wherever you can.
- Always run the cleanup step at the end of each lab — delete NAT Gateways, Elastic IPs, load balancers, RDS instances, and any EC2/EBS you no longer need.
- Set a billing alarm in Week 1 (it's the first lab) so nothing can surprise you.
- See the contributing guide for how to take part and share.
- Please be kind — we follow a Code of Conduct.
- Licensed under MIT.
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