Hello Reader, I just unveiled the SA Bootcamp. The bootcamp covers everything you need to become an SA in as little as 3 months and spoiler alert its not just technical. This Bootcamp is a one of its kind because its taught by a Top SA still working on world class projects. And good news - it already worked for last cohort's students who secured cloud jobs in top FAANG companies, and some of them didn't even have cloud experience 💰. This SA bootcamp offers… a proven blueprint for the fastest...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Are you thinking about becoming an AWS SA? The demand for AWS Solutions Architects has never been higher. And the data indicates it 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. SA Bootcamp is developed to be the most direct and guided route to become a Solutions Architect and get a high paying cloud job. In as little as 3 months you could be an AWS SA...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Happy New Year 2026 to you and your family 🎉. 2025 was a big year for me both professionally and personally. My biggest achievements of 2025 are delivering critical customer projects that YOU use in your life, starting a Start Up, and helping my students succeed. In this email, I will share some highlights and lessons that helped me: If you live in the US, you have certainly used one of the projects I have architected. When a commercial airplane pilot goes up or down, or turn...
16 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, At AWS Re:Invent 2025, AWS announced Lambda Durable Functions that can execute for up to one year while maintaining reliable progress despite interruptions. However, there are caveats: The durable execution timeout is one year BUT each function timeout still remains 15 mins max. What does this mean? Think of this like a Step Function equivalent, where same Lambda can run many times to execute different parts of the code. It can even checkpoint stuff. When you invoke a durable...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, I have been a Cloud Solutions Architect for 10 years - 4 years at Verizon, 6.5 years at AWS. I was an Application Cloud Architect at Verizon, and then I joined AWS, where I had two different SA roles - first a General SA (Enterprise Architect) and then a Specialist SA. In this post, I will review my responsibilities as an SA in all these companies, including the hardest parts of the job (in my humble opinion). Let's get started: Solutions Architect at Verizon I became a SA at...
21 days ago • 6 min read
Hello Reader, As a small early Christmas gift 🎄, I’m sharing an updated Cloud Interview Guide, refreshed with important AWS re:Invent 2025 insights and patterns I’ve seen show up repeatedly in real interviews. What’s inside: 90+ cloud interview questions & answers Examples of average / bad answers vs delightful answers New questions including Canary Vs Blue Green Vs Rolling Deployment, Lambda Managed Instances, Agentic AI, Agentcore gateway, and other topics from Re:Invent 2025 👉 Download the...
26 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Happy Holidays! In today's newsletter, I am going to share three tips that helped me and many of my students switch careers to the cloud and get high-paying jobs. I will also share an update about the upcoming January cohort of the AWS SA Bootcamp. Tip 1: Leverage your IT experience Your existing IT experience is NOT throwaway. Don't think you can't reuse components of your existing knowledge in your cloud journey. For example, my student Abhisekh has deep knowledge of the...
29 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, In today’s post, let’s look at another correct but average answer and a great answer that gets you hired for common cloud interview questions. And this ties to a larger thread - most candidates fail their Solutions Architect interviews - not because they’re underqualified… But because they don’t know how to communicate like a Solutions Architect. How to stand out as a must-hire? Let's start with a common question, and we will go from there! Question - What's the difference...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, I am sending out my newsletter on Saturday, instead of usual Friday, because I am currently returning from world's biggest cloud conference, AWS Re:Invent, from Las Vegas USA. It wrapped up Friday evening, and I am literally typing this newsletter on the plane, please forgive any typos. Now, while a lot of new announcements were made, you don't need to know all of them. There are selective ones that are impactful for interviews, and most real-world projects. We will break those...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, In today’s post, let’s look at another correct but average answer and a great answer that gets you hired to common cloud interview questions. This question is critical because everyone uses this service in almost every project! Question - How will you secure your S3 bucket? Common but average answer I will use KMS so bucket objects are not unencrypted I will use Bucket Policy and IAm roles for least privilege to secure my bucket What the interviewer is looking for is you...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read