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AWS Solution Architect Associate C03 and C02 Exam Scope Service Comparison

Solutions Architect Associate (SAA) Exams will change on 8/30/2022
By changing from the current SAA-C02 to C03, the test content and the number of services in the test range will change.
I compared how many services change

Number of Exam range services for C03 and C02

  • C03: 131 pieces
  • C02: 63 pieces
    • C03 is more than double C02

Exam Guide

Service comparison between C03 and C02

SAA-C03(131) SAA-C02(63)
Analytics
Athena Athena
Data Exchange
Data Pipeline
EMR EMR
Glue Glue
Kinesis Kinesis
Lake Formation
Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
OpenSearch Service (Elasticsearch Service) Elasticsearch Service (ES)
QuickSight QuickSight
Redshift
Application Integration
AppFlow
AppSync
EventBridge (CloudWatch Events) EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)
MQ
Simple Notification Service (SNS) Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Simple Queue Service (SQS) Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Step Functions
Cost management
Budgets Budgets
Cost and Usage Report
Cost Explorer Cost Explorer
Savings Plans
Computing
Batch
EC2 EC2
EC2 Auto Scaling
Elastic Beanstalk Elastic Beanstalk
Outposts
Serverless Application Repository
VMware Cloud on AWS
Wavelength
Container
ECR
ECS ECS
ECS Anywhere
EKS EKS
EKS Anywhere
EKS Distro
Database
Aurora Aurora
Aurora Serverless
DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
DynamoDB DynamoDB
ElastiCache ElastiCache
Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
Neptune
QLDB
RDS RDS
Redshift Redshift
Timestream
Developer Tools
X-Ray
Front-End Web and Mobile
Amplify
API Gateway API Gateway
Device Farm
Pinpoint
Machine Learning
Comprehend
Forecast
Fraud Detector
Kendra
Lex
Polly
Rekognition
SageMaker
Textract
Transcribe
Translate
Management and Governance
Auto Scaling Auto Scaling
CloudFormation CloudFormation
CloudTrail CloudTrail
CloudWatch CloudWatch
AWS CLI
Compute Optimizer
Config Config
Control Tower
License Manager
Managed Grafana
Managed Service for Prometheus
Management Console
Organizations Organizations
Personal Health Dashboard
Proton
Service Catalog
Systems Manager Systems Manager
Trusted Advisor Trusted Advisor
Well-Architected Tool
Media Services
Elastic Transcoder
Kinesis Video Streams
Migration and Transfer
Application Discovery Service
Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration)
Database Migration Service (DMS) Database Migration Service (DMS)
DataSync DataSync
Migration Hub Migration Hub
Server Migration Service (SMS) Server Migration Service (SMS)
Snow Family Snowball
Transfer Family Transfer Family
Networking and Content Delivery
CloudFront CloudFront
Direct Connect Direct Connect
ELB ELB
Global Accelerator Global Accelerator
PrivateLink
Route 53 Route 53
Transit Gateway Transit Gateway
VPC VPC
VPN
Security, Identity, and Compliance
Artifact
Audit Manager
ACM ACM
CloudHSM
Cognito
Detective
Directory Service Directory Service
Firewall Manager
GuardDuty GuardDuty
IAM IAM
Inspector Inspector
KMS KMS
Macie Macie
Network Firewall
Resource Access Manager Resource Access Manager
Secrets Manager Secrets Manager
Security Hub
Shield Shield
AWS SSO AWS SSO
AWS WAF AWS WAF
Serverless
AppSync
Fargate Fargate
Lambda Lambda
Storage
AWS Backup AWS Backup
EBS EBS
EFS EFS
FSx (All Type) FSx
S3 S3
S3 Glacier S3 Glacier
Storage Gateway Storage Gateway

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