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In-Scope and Out-of-Scope Services and Features - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
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In-Scope and Out-of-Scope Services and Features

In-scope AWS services and features

The following list contains AWS services and features that are in scope for the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. AWS offerings appear in categories that align with the offerings' primary functions:

Analytics

  • Amazon AppFlow

  • Amazon Athena

  • Amazon EMR

  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

  • Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

  • Amazon OpenSearch Service

  • Amazon QuickSight

  • Amazon Redshift

  • AWS Clean Rooms

  • AWS Glue

  • AWS Lake Formation

Application Integration

  • Amazon EventBridge

  • Amazon MQ

  • Amazon SNS

  • Amazon SQS

  • AWS Step Functions

Cloud Financial Management

  • AWS Budgets

  • AWS Cost and Usage Report

  • AWS Cost Categories

  • AWS Cost Explorer

  • Reserved Instances

  • Savings Plans

Compute

  • Amazon EC2

  • AWS Application Auto Scaling

  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk

  • AWS Fargate

  • AWS Lambda

  • AWS Local Zones

  • AWS Outposts

Containers

  • Amazon ECR

  • Amazon ECS

  • Amazon EKS

Database

  • Amazon Aurora

  • Amazon DocumentDB

  • Amazon DynamoDB

  • Amazon ElastiCache

  • Amazon Keyspaces

  • Amazon MemoryDB

  • Amazon Neptune

  • Amazon RDS

  • Amazon Timestream

Developer Tools

  • AWS CDK

  • AWS CloudFormation

  • AWS CodeBuild

  • AWS CodeCommit

  • AWS CodeDeploy

  • AWS CodePipeline

  • AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

  • AWS X-Ray

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  • Amazon Bedrock

  • Amazon SageMaker AI

Management and Governance

  • Amazon CloudWatch

  • AWS CloudTrail

  • AWS Compute Optimizer

  • AWS Config

  • AWS Control Tower

  • AWS Organizations

  • AWS Resilience Hub

  • AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)

  • Service Quotas

  • AWS Systems Manager

Migration and Transfer

  • AWS Transform MGN (previously known as AWS Application Migration Service)

  • AWS Data Transfer Terminal

  • AWS DMS

  • AWS DataSync

  • AWS SCT

  • AWS Storage Gateway

  • AWS Transfer Family

  • AWS Transform

Networking and Content Delivery

  • Amazon API Gateway

  • Amazon CloudFront

  • Amazon Route 53

  • Amazon VPC

  • Amazon VPC Lattice

  • AWS Cloud WAN

  • AWS Direct Connect

  • AWS Global Accelerator

  • AWS Network Firewall

  • AWS PrivateLink

  • AWS Transit Gateway

  • AWS VPN

  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Security, Identity, and Compliance

  • Amazon Cognito

  • Amazon GuardDuty

  • Amazon Inspector

  • Amazon Security Lake

  • Amazon Verified Permissions

  • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

  • AWS CloudHSM

  • AWS Directory Service

  • IAM

  • AWS KMS

  • AWS Secrets Manager

  • AWS Security Hub

  • AWS Shield

  • AWS Verified Access

  • AWS WAF

Storage

  • Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

  • Amazon EBS

  • Amazon EFS

  • Amazon FSx

  • Amazon S3

  • AWS Backup

  • AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Testing and Resilience

  • AWS Fault Injection Service

Out-of-scope AWS services and features

The following list contains AWS services and features that are out of scope for the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. AWS offerings that are entirely unrelated to the target job roles for the exam are excluded from this list:

Blockchain

  • Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB)

Compute

  • Amazon Lightsail

Databases

  • Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

Frontend Web and Mobile Services

  • AWS Device Farm

Game Tech

  • Amazon GameLift

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Amazon Comprehend Medical

  • Amazon Transcribe Medical

  • AWS DeepComposer

  • AWS DeepRacer

Media

  • Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS)

  • AWS Elemental MediaConvert

  • AWS Elemental MediaLive

Quantum Technologies

  • Amazon Braket

Satellite

  • AWS Ground Station