Brett McLaughlin - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide: Associate (SOA-C01) Exam 2nd Edition

Sara Perrott

Brett McLaughlin

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I dedicate this book to my husband for his patience and encouragement throughout the writing process. Getting this book finished meant many missed nights in Azeroth; it's a labor of love for sure!

Sara Perrott

This one is for Addie, who has literally grown up before my eyes while I've been working on this book. Addie, I'm so proud of you, and love you tons, even though you won't understand a word of what's in this giant tome.

Brett McLaughlin

While a book may be a labor of love for an author, there is a fantastic team of people behind the author or authors that makes the book a reality. First off, a shout-out to our team at Wiley, who put in a lot of hard work to take the book from a manuscript to the finished book in front of you now. My gratitude to our editor, Adaobi Obi Tulton, who kept us on task and helped to polish the text. Another shout-out to our technical editor, John Mueller, whose guidance and keen eye helped to make this book better.

My personal thanks also to my agent, Carole Jelen, and to my coworkers, who put up with my need to take extra personal days to finish the book.

Sara Perrott

Sara speaks the truth when she says that it's rarely clear to anyone but the authors just how much help is needed to pull off a book. In this case, Sara is both a great author and someone who came in to help when I was frankly drowning! She's made this book tremendously more valuable and you wouldn't have it in your hands without her saving the day.

Adaobi also deserves more praise than can fit into a short paragraph. From helpful comments to gentle nudges to (at times) much-needed, Look, I really need that chapter, Brett, every email I received from Adaobi was right on time and just what was needed.

The rest of my thanks to the entire Wiley team, our technical editor, John, and my own agent (and Sara's), Carole. Until next time, when we can all do it again!

Brett McLaughlin

Sara Perrott is an information security professional with a systems and network engineering background. She shares her passion for all things information technology by teaching classes related to Windows Server, Amazon Web Services, networking, and virtualization, as well as other classes when needed at a local community college. She enjoys speaking at public events and presented most recently at the RSA Conference in 2019. Sara also enjoys technical editing and technical proofreading and has had the pleasure to work on a few projects doing this type of work.

When Sara is not working or writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband playing World of Warcraft, building robots, and playing with her ham radio. She also loves playing with her two pugs. Sara has a website where you can see some of the things she has been up to at ).

Brett McLaughlin has been working and writing in the technology space for over 20 years. Today, Brett's focus is squarely on cloud and enterprise computing. He has quickly become a trusted name in helping companies execute a migration to the cloudand, in particular, Amazon Web Servicesby translating confusing cloud concepts into a clear, executive-level vision. He is the chief technical officer (CTO) of Volusion, an e-commerce platform company based in Austin, Texas. Prior to Volusion, Brett has led large-scale cloud migrations for NASA's Earth Science program and the RockCreek Group's financial platform.