Joyjeet Banerjee - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam SAA-C02)

Joyjeet Banerjee works as a Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services, where he crafts highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business needs. Joyjeet helps organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud.

Before joining AWS, Joyjeet worked as an enterprise architect with Oracles Engineered Systems team based at Oracles headquarters in California. Before joining the Oracle Engineered Systems team, Joyjeet was with Oracle Consulting, where he assisted customers to implement Oracle products. During his tenure at Oracle, he wrote several books on Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, and Exadata.

Joyjeet is a regular guest speaker at AWS re:Invent, AWS Summit, AWS Pop-up Loft, AWS Webinars, Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG), Collaborate, and Oracle OpenWorld. He was on the panel of Oracle University that reviewed the course content and set up questions for the Oracle Certification Program (OCP) for the Oracle Database, RAC, and Oracle Applications tracks.

Joyjeet earned an MBA in systems and operations management and was recently honored as an Oracle Innovator.

Dhanraj Pondicherry leads the Database Solution Architect team at Amazon Web Services. With a BS and MS in Computer Science, having worked with databases and database applications for 17 years, and having been part of the AWS journey since 2014, he is passionate about enabling customers, partners or just anyone whos curious, to understand and deliver outcomes on AWS.

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This book is dedicated to my guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, for his wisdom; my mom; my dad; my lovely wife, Suchismita; my sisters, Joyeeta and Tiya; my brothers-in-law, Sagar and Riju; my little sweet niece, Saanjh; and my lovely nephew, Manav.

Many people have contributed a lot to the successful completion of this book. I would like to use this opportunity to thank all of them. Without their help, it would have been difficult for me to finish this book.

I would like to thank Lisa McClain, senior editor at McGraw Hill, for her enthusiastic support and motivation throughout the process, for making adjustments to the schedule whenever there was a fire drill at my job, and for helping me in every possible way to make this book a reality; Emily Walters, editorial coordinator at McGraw Hill, for managing this project and always staying on top of things; Revathi Viswanathan of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. for helping me in all phases of the production of this book; Patty Mon, editorial supervisor; Bart Reed for helping me in editing this book; and Lisa McCoy for proofreading.

I would like to thank Dhanraj Pondicherry, senior manager at Amazon Web Services, for the technical review of this book and for providing his valuable feedback and advice at every step. I would also like to thank Francessca Vasquez and Matthew Menz, both directors at Amazon Web Services, and the Amazon legal and PR teams for providing all the necessary approvals.

Last, but not least, I would like to thank all my friends and colleagues who, without fail, motivated and encouraged me to make this book happen.

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