Trying to Find an Individual-Maintained AWS SA Professional Site? Start Here

A familiar r/AWSCertifications search

There is a recurring post on Reddit r/AWSCertifications that reads roughly like this: 'Please help. Trying to find a website. Maintain by individual covers AWS SA Professional material.' The poster usually remembers an independent author, a clean layout, and detailed notes about AWS services. They do not remember the domain name. If that sounds familiar, the site you are most likely thinking of is Jayendra Patil's Cloud Certification Blog.

The most likely site: Jayendra Patil's AWS notes

Jayendra Patil runs one of the best-known individual-maintained AWS certification sites. His AWS Solutions Architect Professional material is organized around exam domains and covers the services that matter in the SAP-C02 exam: AWS Organizations, SCPs, hybrid networking, migration tools, identity federation, and multi-account architecture. The posts are written as study notes from real exam experience, not as a replacement for official AWS documentation.

Start with [Jayendra Patil's Cloud Certification Blog](https://jayendrapatil.com/) if it matches your memory. It includes service-level notes and scenario guidance that many candidates use as a companion to the official guide.

Why individual-run sites are hard to find

Individual AWS certification sites are often maintained quietly, updated in bursts, and ranked below vendor platforms in search results. That makes them easy to lose even when the content is better for a specific need. People usually encounter them through Reddit threads, bookmarks, or a colleague's shared study plan.

The most valuable individual-run resources tend to share a few traits:

The author has recently taken the exam and writes from the candidate's perspective.

The notes are organized by scenario, not only by service.

The site explains why a particular architecture pattern is chosen over another.

The content is updated when AWS changes service names, limits, or console flows.

Other individual-run resources worth checking

If Jayendra Patil's site is not the one you remember, these are the next likely candidates.

Adrian Cantrill's courses and GitHub

Adrian Cantrill is an individual educator who publishes AWS certification courses at [learn.cantrill.io](https://learn.cantrill.io). His Solutions Architect Professional course is known for deep technical diagrams, real-world scenarios, and hands-on labs. He also maintains GitHub repositories with study resources and sample architectures. This is a paid course, but its structure feels like a technical mentor explaining AWS rather than corporate training.

GitHub study guides

Many individuals publish their personal AWS SA Pro notes as public GitHub repositories. Search for terms like 'AWS Solutions Architect Professional notes SAP-C02' on GitHub and filter by recently updated repositories. The best repos include domain-level breakdowns, links to AWS FAQs, and practice question logs. Because GitHub shows last commit dates, it is easier to see whether the material is current.

Substack and Medium writers

Individual authors on Substack and Medium occasionally publish detailed AWS SA Pro exam retrospectives. These are useful for understanding which topics appeared heavily in a specific exam window, but they should not be treated as full coverage. Look for authors who link back to the official AWS exam guide and explain the reasoning behind their answers.

Check the official exam scope first

Before you spend hours on any individual site, verify the current syllabus. AWS updates the Solutions Architect Professional exam periodically. The official [AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Exam Guide](https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-professional/) lists the current domains and weighting.

The SAP-C02 domains are:

1. Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

2. Design for New Solutions

3. Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

4. Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

Any individual-run site should cover these domains in a way that is recognizably aligned. If a site is organized around old SAP-C01 content or only covers associate-level services, use it as a supplement rather than a primary source.

How to evaluate an individual-run AWS SA Pro site

The quality gap between individual study sites is large. Use these checks before trusting one.

Recency

Look for a last-updated note, a changelog, or recent Reddit comments from the author. AWS changes quickly. A site that has not been updated since before SAP-C02 was released in 2022 may still be useful for fundamentals, but it will miss newer service emphasis.

Scenario depth

The SA Professional exam is not a simple fact recall test. It presents long scenario questions that require combining organizational, security, cost, and operational requirements. A good individual site will walk through why one answer is better than another. If the site only lists service limits, it is not enough.

Source alignment

Good individual authors link to official AWS documentation, FAQs, re:Invent talks, or Well-Architected Framework pages. If the site makes assertions without sources, cross-check them against the AWS documentation before relying on them.

Author credibility

Look for authors who state when they passed the exam, what version they sat, and how they prepared. Anonymous notes can still be useful, but credential transparency increases trust.

A practical AWS SA Pro study workflow

If you are assembling a study plan, the most reliable path is to combine official AWS resources with one or two individual-run sites.

1. Start with the official AWS SA Professional exam guide and sample questions.

2. Use Jayendra Patil's or another individual-run site for detailed service-level study notes.

3. Read AWS FAQs for high-weight services like EC2, S3, IAM, Organizations, CloudFront, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Lambda.

4. Build hands-on labs in a personal AWS account for multi-account, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, and hybrid connectivity.

5. Take practice exams from at least two sources and review every wrong answer in writing.

6. Return to the individual-run site only for weak areas, not as a full pass-through.

When to use a vendor platform instead

Individual-run sites are excellent for conceptual clarity, but formal platforms have advantages for structured practice: organized question banks, timed modes, performance tracking, and team features. If you need to simulate exam pressure or track readiness, combine an individual site with a practice-exam platform such as Tutorials Dojo or Whizlabs. The important part is not the platform brand; it is whether you can explain why each architecture decision fits the scenario.

The missing site is usually one of three things

In most 'trying to find a website' threads, the answer comes down to three possibilities:

Jayendra Patil's blog, for detailed written notes.

Adrian Cantrill's platform, for a full technical course.

A personal GitHub or Substack retrospective, for a specific exam window.

If you can remember a distinctive phrase, search for that phrase in quotes along with 'AWS SA Professional'. The site will usually surface quickly because community posts link back to it.

At Sapior, we build developer tools for cloud browser automation, and we apply the same lens to technical content: trust resources that show observable behavior, cite primary sources, and stay current.

Keep your study stack simple

The AWS Solutions Architect Professional is a demanding exam, but the preparation does not need to be complicated. Pick one official source, one individual-run deep dive, one hands-on environment, and one practice-exam source. Then study by writing and building, not by collecting more tabs. That approach will serve you better than any single website on its own.