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SAA-C0324% of the exam

Design High-Performing Architectures

High-performing storage, compute, database and networking solutions, and data ingestion and transformation that keeps up with the load.

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What this domain is worth

Amazon Web Services publishes this domain at 24% of SAA-C03. On a 50-question scored exam that is roughly 12 questions. It is the third heaviest of the 4 domains, which is why our mock exams allocate questions by weight rather than evenly.

Taken from the published exam guide, checked 2026-09-11.

What it covers

Storage performance

2

S3 classes and access patterns, EBS volume types, EFS, FSx and file versus object choice.

Practise Storage performance

Compute performance

1

Instance families, Lambda, containers and choosing compute for a workload shape.

Practise Compute performance

Database performance

3

RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB capacity and access patterns, read replicas and caching.

Practise Database performance

Network and delivery

1

CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Direct Connect, placement groups and edge delivery.

Practise Network and delivery

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