Hello Reader, Are you thinking about becoming an AWS Solutions Architect and working at top companies? Data shows that Solution Architects earn between $200,000/year and $500,000+/year (screenshots below). The demand for AWS Solutions Architects has never been higher and will continue to rise because there are literally trillions of dollars worth of projects currently running on legacy technologies that need to be migrated to the cloud. When looking into becoming an SA it's really common to...
about 7 hours ago • 1 min read
Quick heads up - registration for the free Cohort 9 SA Bootcamp launch workshop is full. Zoom has a hard attendee cap, and once we hit it, no one else gets in. No exceptions. If you registered, your spot is not guaranteed until you're actually in the room. Join at least 10-15 minutes early to make sure you get in before the room locks. 📅 Aug 1st, 12 PM ET (Eastern Time) 👉 You should have the meeting invite in your calendar already. Just in case you deleted it, here is the registration link 👇...
1 day ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Most people preparing for an AWS Solutions Architect interview are using outdated information. The process has changed significantly, and if you are preparing based on what worked two years ago, you are preparing for the wrong interview. I am a former L7 Principal SA at AWS who have conducted hundreds of interview, and I have helped many of my students crack Big tech interviews, including at AWS. Here is the updated process. The online assessment is not optional for most people...
2 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Six months ago, an interviewer asking about Gen AI was a bonus round. Today it is standard. At AWS, Microsoft, Meta, JP Morgan, Verizon, and most large enterprise technology teams, Gen AI questions are showing up in every SA, FDE, and AI engineer interview regardless of the role's primary focus. The candidates who answer these well are not the ones who have read the most blog posts. They are the ones who can connect the concepts to real architecture decisions and explain the...
4 days ago • 6 min read
Hello Reader, This question is getting more popular fast, driven largely by companies worried about sending proprietary data to a model provider. In this edition, we will go over how to self-host it on Kubernetes. Good answer: The agent code itself is straightforward. Containerize it, push it to Amazon ECR, and run it as a pod. The model is the hard part. A model has two pieces: the model image, containing the tokenizer and configuration, and the model weights, which for an 80 billion...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Are you thinking about becoming an AWS SA, and getting yourself a salary boost - maybe still in 2026? The demand for AWS Solutions Architects has never been higher, cloud computing already crossed $723 billion in 2025 and is projected to top $1 trillion by 2027, accelerated by AI (Source: Gartner). SA Bootcamp is developed to be the most direct and guided route to become a Solutions Architect and get a high paying cloud job fast, without wasting time doing it the hard way like...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, AWS released something this week that is going to confuse a lot of people. It is related to the Gen-AI Word of the Week: Harness. In this newsletter, we are going to go over what is Agent Harness and how this newly released Agent Core Harness is related to it or differs from it. And more importantly, how much should you learn about it for your interviews and real-world projects? What a harness actually is First let's understand what is an AI agent. Most people focus on the LLM...
11 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Back in my last company, we pushed a new release to production on a Friday afternoon. Full cutover! By Saturday morning, the ops team was scrambling because a subtle config issue was silently failing for 30% of users. We had no way to catch it before it hit everyone. That experience taught me something : the deployment strategy you choose is a risk management decision, not just a DevOps choice. Today, let's go over three deployment strategies that come up constantly in system...
14 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, As a former Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, and Distinguished Cloud Architect at Verizon, I conducted 300+ interviews. And every cloud interview has this question.Every. Single. One. "How will you make your application scalable for a big traffic day?" And almost every candidate gives the same answer: "I'll use an Auto Scaling Group with EC2s and a load balancer to distribute traffic." Technically correct. Completely average. Three years ago that answer was fine. Today it...
16 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Six months ago, an interviewer asking about Gen AI was a bonus round. Today it is standard. At AWS, Microsoft, Meta, JP Morgan, Verizon, and most large enterprise technology teams, Gen AI questions are showing up in every SA, FDE, and AI engineer interview regardless of the role's primary focus. The candidates who answer these well are not the ones who have read the most blog posts. They are the ones who can connect the concepts to real architecture decisions and explain the...
18 days ago • 4 min read