Zach Lawrence, Dev Technology Senior IT System Administrator, joins Adam D’Angelo to talk about a preparing for the AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam as well as some of the unique considerations for development in the cloud environment. Zach and Adam discuss the following.

• AWS Solution Architect exam prep tips including the importance of understanding the vocabulary, using practice tests to prepare, and the importance of practicing with VPCs
• The importance of understanding the formal features of AWS for making tradeoff decisions
• How architecting in the cloud changes the way you think about developing a solution—the underlying infrastructure is essential to leveraging the benefits of the cloud
• Using different locations for latency tradeoffs
• The importance of hands on learning
• Selecting cloud native vs cloud agnostic functionality
• Security on-prem vs the cloud
• Avoiding vendor lock-in

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