Hey r/AWSCertifications,
Studying for SAA-C03 and kept getting tripped up by exam
traps — especially in VPC and IAM where the wording is
deliberately confusing.
So I started writing down every trap I found while going
through practice questions. Ended up turning them into
cheatsheets for the 6 highest-weight topics.
A few examples of what I flagged:
→ VPC peering fails? Check if CIDRs overlap first
→ "7 years compliance lowest cost" = Glacier Deep Archive
NOT Flexible Retrieval
→ Multi-AZ standby cannot serve reads — only Read
Replicas can
Turned these into a 38-page dark-mode PDF bundle.
Available on Gumroad for $4.99 if anyone wants it —
but mainly sharing the examples here because I think
they're genuinely useful regardless.
What traps caught YOU off guard while studying?