This week I passed the AWS Architect Professional exam 🎉

Here are my hints on preparing, exam scope, understanding questions, and some pro tips!

A thread 🧵👇

'Analyze Amazon Cognito advanced security intelligence to improve visibility and protection' aws.amazon.com/blogs/security…

'Configure a performance testing framework for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL' aws.amazon.com/blogs/database…

'Amazon @DynamoDB schema from the prism of SQL' aws.amazon.com/blogs/database…

'Export historical Security Hub findings to an S3 bucket to enable complex analytics' aws.amazon.com/blogs/security…

'Cost Optimization recommendations for AWS Config' aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/cost-…

'What to consider when modernizing APIs with GraphQL on AWS' aws.amazon.com/blogs/architec…

'CI/CD pipeline to build, and deploy containerized applications with AWS ECS service' medium.com/@rasankhalsa/c…

'Bringing clarity to your hybrid cloud journey' ibm.com/resources/mode…

People often tell me ' #serverless is too expensive at scale', but rarely can they tell me what 'at scale' actually means.

So I did some math and wrote an over-simplification of comparing cloud costs to find when serverless really is more expensive.

readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.hel…

'10 Ways Managers are Wasting Their Developers' Potential' medium.com/awesome-agile/…

'10 Must-Read Books for Software Engineers in 2023' by levelup.gitconnected.com/10-must-read-b…

'3 AI Productivity Tools Exciting Me!' francescod.medium.com/3-ai-productiv…

Interesting solution 👉 Deploy a machine learning inference data capture solution on AWS Lambda buff.ly/3U65JE5 #AWS #MachineLearning #Serverless

I spoke with 🇺🇦 Luc van Donkersgoed about how PostNL is using serverless and event-driven architectures at scale and how they solve challenges such as schema validation and enforcement, and how they approach testing EDAs.

realworldserverless.com/episode/68

Monitoring the availability and health of on-premises application using AWS CloudWatch Synthetics 👉 Monitor REST APIs, URLs, and website content, as well as check for unauthorized changes from phishing, code injection, and cross-site scripting buff.ly/3SWygLn #AWS

My Java Concurrency video playlist is now up to 23 videos :-)

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

#Java

Deep Dive on AWS App Runner Private Services 👉 By default, your App Runner service endpoint is accessible over the internet. Now, you can choose a private endpoint for your App Runner service accessible only in your VPCs buff.ly/3h27T9e #AWS #Serverless