Baron - AWS Certified Solutions Architect study guide: associate exam

Certified Solutions Architect Official

Joe Baron, Hisham Baz, Tim Bixler, Biff Gaut, Kevin E. Kelly, Sean Senior, John Stamper

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For the original AWS instructor, Mike Culver, who taught us how to teach, lead, and inspire with tenacity and kindness.

The authors would like to thank a few people who helped us develop and write this AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam.

First, thanks to all our families who put up with us spending weekends and evenings creating content, writing questions, and reviewing each other's chapters. Their patience and support made this book possible.

Niamh O'Byrne, AWS Certification Manager, who introduced all of the authors and many more solutions architects at AWS to certification testing and got this book started by challenging some of us to extend our reach and help more cloud practitioners get certified.

Nathan Bower and Victoria Steidel, amazing technical writers at AWS who reviewed and edited all the content and every question and gently made us better writers and communicators. They were tireless in reviewing and helping us hone and focus our content.

Patrick Shumate, a fellow AWS solutions architect who contributed test questions right when we needed the help to get us over the finish line.

We could not have written this book without the help of our friends at Wiley. Kenyon Brown, Senior Acquisitions Editor, corralled us and focused us on the end goal. Additionally, we were guided by Gary Schwartz, Project Editor; Kezia Endsley, Copyeditor; and Dassi Zeidel, Production Editor who took output from different authors and turned it into a cohesive and complete finished product.

Lastly, we want to thank all the solutions architects at AWS who participated in certification blueprint development, question writing, and review sessions, and the development of a world-class certification program for cloud practitioners that is setting the standard for our industry.

Joe Baron, Principal Solutions Architect for AWS, is currently working with customers in the Southeastern United States. Joe joined AWS in 2009 as one of the first solutions architects, and in the years since he has helped customers of all sizes, from small startups to some of the largest enterprises in the world, to architect their infrastructures and migrate their applications to the cloud. He was also an early contributor to the AWS Associate and Professional Certified Solutions Architect programs. Joe holds a BS degree in engineering physics from Cornell University and is proud to be an expert generalist. Prior to joining AWS, Joe had 25 years of experience in technology, with roles in data center automation, virtualization, life sciences, high-performance computing, 3D visualization, hardware and software development, and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program management. He is also a dedicated husband to Carol and father of two children, Matt and Jessie. When not helping customers migrate all the things to the cloud, Joe is an amateur classical pianist and collector of traditional woodworking tools. He lives in the Raleigh, NC area.