// the take
This is the content repo backing Adrian Cantrill's AWS SAA-C03 certification course: diagrams, CloudFormation templates, and lab instructions organized by course section, not a library or tool. It's for people taking that specific paid course who want the lab files locally instead of downloading them one by one from the platform.
The CloudFormation templates are real, runnable infrastructure-as-code rather than toy snippets, so you get working VPC/EC2/IAM examples instead of just screenshots. Organization by numbered course section makes it trivial to find the exact asset referenced in a given lecture. The diagrams are genuinely well-made and the YAML in the EC2 and VPC sections is a decent reference for CFN syntax even outside the course context.
This has no value without the paid course it supports — most of the repo is lecture diagrams and placeholder files, not functioning software. Last pushed in November 2023, so some templates likely reference deprecated instance types or outdated default AMIs that no longer resolve. There's no license file in evidence despite the README talking about license terms, and no CI or validation on the CloudFormation templates, so there's no guarantee they still deploy cleanly.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →