Design principles for microservices (for example, stateless workloads compared with stateful workloads)
AWS security best practices (for example, the principle of least privilege)
Serverless technologies and patterns (for example, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda)
AWS federated access and identity services (for example, AWS Identity and Access Management [IAM], AWS IAM Identity Center [AWS Single Sign-On])
Load balancing concepts (for example, Application Load Balancer)
AWS managed services with appropriate use cases (for example, AWS Transfer Family, Amazon Simple Queue Service [Amazon SQS], Secrets Manager)
The orchestration of containers (for example, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS])
Event-driven architectures
Data access and governance
API creation and management (for example, Amazon API Gateway, REST API)
Secure application access
When to use read replicas
AWS managed services with appropriate use cases (for example, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Polly)
Security services with appropriate use cases (for example, Amazon Cognito, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie)
The AWS shared responsibility model