Become an AWS Solutions Architect for the AI era.
Already working in IT? Prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) exam, then do the job: take a real client brief and, as a team, design, defend and build an AI-powered system on AWS. Live, every Sunday, with Rajesh Daswani.
One free registration puts you on the waitlist and books your seat at all three free live classes. Doors open Sun 10 Jan 2027.
Moving from traditional IT into cloud? You're closer than you think.
If you work in IT support, systems administration, infrastructure or networking, you already understand servers, DNS, identity, storage and troubleshooting. The Accelerator turns that experience into AWS architecture skills, so you can move into cloud engineering, solutions architecture or DevOps without starting again.
Certify on SAA-C03
The full self-paced SAA-C03 video course with labs, plus four live Sundays structured around the four exam domains, and two revision Sundays before you sit the exam.
Do the architect's job
A five-week team engagement: discovery, proposal and SOW, high- and low-level design, build and showcase. The same process real architects run, and the same conversation interviewers put you through.
Design with AI on AWS
Your brief includes an AI component: triaging customer requests by impact and urgency with Amazon Bedrock. You'll make real trade-offs on cost, latency, guardrails and human review.
Five weeks. One client brief. Your team builds it.
For five weeks you stop studying AWS and start doing the job. Your team of 4–5 receives a real business brief: a customer-facing support app with a back-office dashboard for support staff, where AI triages every incoming request on an impact × urgency matrix. I play the client. You run the engagement.
- Discovery — interview the client, gather requirements, define the triage matrix.
- Proposal — present your proposal, statement of work and high-level design live. Expect pushback.
- Low-level design — detail the architecture, including the Bedrock triage component, guardrails and cost.
- Build — implement it on AWS, with blockers cleared live.
- Showcase — demo the working system and defend your decisions.
You leave with an interview-ready portfolio piece: proposal, SOW, HLD/LLD and a working build, ready for LinkedIn, GitHub and your CV.
Induction, then 12 live Sundays.
Work through the self-paced video course in your own time. Each Sunday's live session covers concepts, clears doubts and moves your team forward. That's 24 hours of live coaching, not just recorded videos.
Exam domains, live
One Sunday per SAA-C03 domain: secure, resilient, high-performing, cost-optimised.
You Be The Architect
Discovery → proposal → design → build → showcase, as a team.
LinkedIn & CV
Rewritten around your project, with measurable results, not certificate lists.
Revision & exam
Practice-exam debriefs, weak-domain drills and exam strategy.
| Date | Live session |
|---|---|
| Sun 24 Jan | Induction — meet the cohort, set up accounts, agree your study plan |
| Sun 31 Jan | Week 1 · Design Secure Architectures |
| Sun 7 Feb | Week 2 · Design Resilient Architectures |
| Sun 14 Feb | Week 3 · Design High-Performing Architectures |
| Sun 21 Feb | Week 4 · Design Cost-Optimised Architectures · brief released, teams formed |
| Sun 28 Feb | Week 5 · YBTA: Discovery |
| Sun 7 Mar | Week 6 · YBTA: Proposal, SOW & high-level design |
| Sun 14 Mar | Week 7 · YBTA: Low-level design & AI triage design |
| Sun 21 Mar | Week 8 · YBTA: Build review |
| Sun 28 Mar | Easter Sunday — no session (extra build week before the showcase) |
| Sun 4 Apr | Week 9 · YBTA: Showcase |
| Sun 11 Apr | Week 10 · LinkedIn & CV review |
| Sun 18 Apr | Week 11 · Revision 1 |
| Sun 25 Apr | Week 12 · Revision 2 & exam strategy |
Sessions are fixed at 7:30 PM IST. That's 2:00 PM UK / 9:00 AM ET until 7 Mar; 2:00 PM UK / 10:00 AM ET on 14 and 21 Mar (US clocks change); and 3:00 PM UK / 10:00 AM ET from 4 Apr (UK clocks change).
Three free live classes
45 minutes each at 7:30 PM IST / 2:00 PM UK / 9:00 AM ET. Join live on Zoom to ask questions, or watch the live stream on YouTube. Register once and you're booked into all three, with calendar invites and reminders.
Could You Build This?
Design a scalable, highly available architecture live, from load balancer to database, with an AI component on Amazon Bedrock.
Certificate ≠ Job
Why the certificate alone won't get you hired, and the design, trade-off and communication skills that will.
Live Q&A / AMA
A quick tour of core AWS services, then your questions on getting certified and hired. The last class before the cohort starts.
Leave ready for interviews, not just the exam.
CV & LinkedIn, rewritten
In Week 10 we rewrite both around your project and measurable results, so they read like an architect's.
2 mock interviews
Live mock interviews with feedback, so you can walk an interviewer through a design with confidence.
Priority Slack support
Ask questions any day, learn alongside your cohort, and get recorded feedback on your team's weekly deliverable.
Rajesh Daswani
Principal Cloud Architect · Author · Trainer · LinkedIn
- 20+ years architecting production systems and training the teams who run them
- Author of two AWS certification study guides with Packt Publishing
- Enterprise training delivered for Revolent Group, Netcom Training and In4 Group
- Holds AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Developer Associate, CloudOps Engineer, AI Practitioner and Cloud Practitioner
Rajesh personally delivers every live Sunday session. No junior TAs.
From learners of my AWS courses
This course is extremely well-structured and easy to follow. Concepts are explained in a simple, step-by-step manner, which makes even advanced AWS topics feel clear and manageable.
Even though I've already completed the course, I still go back to it because it's very useful as documentation and as a reference.
One programme. One payment.
AWS Accelerator · Cohort 3
One-time payment, billed in your local currency at checkout. No subscriptions, no instalments, no upsells.
- Instant access to the full self-paced SAA-C03 video course with labs, from the moment you enrol
- Induction + 12 live Sundays (2 hours each · 24 hours live)
- 5-week live "You Be The Architect" team engagement, including an AI triage component on Amazon Bedrock
- Recorded feedback on your team's weekly deliverable
- CV feedback and LinkedIn profile rewrite
- 2 mock interviews
- Priority Slack support
- 2 dedicated revision Sundays before your exam
- Free voucher: SAA-C03 Practice Exam Simulator (390 questions · 6 exams)
- Lifetime access to course materials
Get the enrolment link first.
Free, no commitment. Doors open Sun 10 Jan 2027.
One quick Zoom registration (name and email). You'll get calendar invites for all three free classes, and the enrolment link when doors open.
Questions
Is this just another AWS certification course?
No. You prepare for SAA-C03, but the focus is learning to think, design and interview like a Solutions Architect, by running a real client engagement as a team, with live coaching every week.
How much time do I need each week?
The live session is 2 hours every Sunday. Outside that, work through the self-paced videos on the study plan agreed at induction, and during the You Be The Architect weeks, contribute to one team deliverable per week (roughly 2–3 hours of team effort). It's designed for people with full-time jobs.
What time are the sessions?
Every session is at 7:30 PM IST. That's 2:00 PM UK / 9:00 AM ET in January to early March; 2:00 PM UK / 10:00 AM ET on 14 and 21 March after US clocks change; and 3:00 PM UK / 10:00 AM ET from 4 April after UK clocks change. There's no session on Easter Sunday, 28 March.
Do I need prior AWS experience?
No. The programme suits people with an IT, support, systems, infrastructure or networking background. We start from AWS fundamentals. Turning up on Sundays matters more than knowing AWS already.
Does it cover the AWS AI Practitioner exam?
The live programme prepares you for SAA-C03. AI is built into the team project, where you design an AI triage system on Amazon Bedrock, so you learn applied AI architecture rather than a second exam syllabus.
Is it a one-time payment?
Yes. $347, billed in your local currency at checkout, covers everything: the self-paced course, all 12 live Sundays, the team engagement and the career support.
Does the price include the AWS exam fee?
No. You get a free SAA-C03 practice exam simulator voucher (390 questions, 6 exams). The official exam fee is paid to AWS when you book your test.
Is there a job or pass guarantee?
No, and don't trust anyone who offers one. What you get is thorough exam prep, a portfolio project, a CV and LinkedIn rewrite, two mock interviews and dedicated revision sessions.
What if work gets in the way?
If you can't keep up, you can transfer once, free of charge, to the next cohort and rejoin at the start of You Be The Architect.
Can my employer pay for this?
Yes. We provide invoices and sponsorship letters for employer-funded places.
What does joining the waitlist mean?
It's free and doesn't commit you to anything. One quick Zoom registration books you into all three free live classes and puts you on the Cohort 3 waitlist. You'll get the enrolment link when doors open on Sun 10 Jan 2027.
Cohort 3 starts Sunday 24 January 2027.
Join the waitlist to get the enrolment link first on 10 January.