Kamesh Ganesan - AWS Certified Developer Associate All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam DVA-C01)

Kamesh Ganesan is a cloud evangelist, seasoned technology professional, cloud security subject matter expert (SME), author, speaker, and coach with over 23 years of IT experience in all major cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and Alibaba Cloud. He has over 50 IT certifications, including 5 AWS, 4 Azure, 3 GCP, 6 OCI, and an Alibaba cloud certification. He has played many roles, including certified multicloud architect, cloud-native application architect, lead database administrator, programmer analyst, and developer. He architected, built, automated, and delivered high-quality, mission-critical, and innovative technology solutions that helped his enterprise, commercial, and government clients be very successful and significantly improve their business value using a multicloud strategy.

Rajat Ravinder Varuni provides consultations to customers in the public sector that include architectural design and deployment of solutions that reduce the likelihood of data leakage, web application, and denial-of-service attacks. He is a subject matter expert who provides ongoing support for achieving regulatory needs such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) attestation and authorization. Currently, he holds the GIAC Penetration Tester certificate, as well as a host of AWS certifications. He also participates in the development of AWS certification exams, including the Security specialty. Additionally, he has contributed to the AWS Security Blog found at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/author/varunirv/.

Rajat serves as an academic advisor for the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), a graduate-level cybersecurity program. He is also on the editorial board for the Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) and serves as a journal reviewer at Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Rajat holds a masters and a bachelors degree in computer science from The George Washington University and Michigan Technological University, respectively.

In his free time, Rajat enjoys having a single-threaded conversation and exploring nature.

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I would like to dedicate this book to my mother,
father, all my teachers, and God Almighty.

A special thanks to my wife, Hemalatha, and my kids, Sachin and Arjun, for their continuous support in all my pursuits. I would like to express my gratitude to my father, Ganesan, my mother, Kasthuri, and my brother, Gandhi, for their motivation. I want to thank my friend, Prithviraj Padmanabhan, who always supported me unconditionally. I would like to thank Jennifer Scott for her encouragement and Yujun Liang for his inspiration. Also, I would like to thank everyone at McGraw-Hill, especially Senior Editor, Lisa McClain, Editorial Coordinator, Emily Walters, Copy Editor, Lisa McCoy, Project Manager, Parag Mittal, Editorial Supervisor, Patty Mon, and Technical Reviewer, Rajat Ravinder Varuni.

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