// the take
Companion asset repo for Adrian Cantrill's AWS Solutions Architect Associate course (the SAA-C02 edition). It's CloudFormation templates, demo instructions, and PDF/PNG learning aids organized by course section, meant to be followed alongside the paid video course rather than used standalone.
The CloudFormation templates are real, deployable IaC covering common patterns (VPC tiers, bootstrapped EC2, RDS-to-Aurora migration, ECS) with incremental versions (A4L_VPC_v1 through v3) that show how a stack evolves as new requirements get layered in. Demo instructions are concrete step-by-step commands rather than vague prose, so you can actually reproduce the labs.
SAA-C02 was retired in 2022 in favor of SAA-C03, so this targets an exam version AWS no longer offers, and some service defaults/UI steps in the demos are already stale. No commits since mid-2023, so templates likely reference aging instance types or AMI IDs without anyone maintaining them. The demo_instructions.txt files assume the course's narration for context, so they're not self-contained documentation if you don't have the videos. This is course collateral, not a maintained tool or library, so there's no ongoing value beyond the one-time run-through.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →