AWS Certified Solution Architect and AWS Certified Sysops Administrator implemented 100's of projects.
o Architecting and Migration: Designed and implemented well planned architecture and migrated workloads from local data centers to AWS cloud based upon business needs of the organization.
o Service Selection: While designing the architecture, the required and suitable AWS services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, VPC, Route 53 etc. are selected.
o Cost Explorer and Control: Saved $ compared with regular annual price of AWS by Reserving Instances for various services and using other cost control techniques.
o Storage (S3, Glacier): Created highly customized and production oriented S3 bucket and object structures. Created policies for automatic transfer of old data to less expensive Glacier
o EC2: Created and administered EC2 instances in various regions and availability zones
o VPC: Setup separate VPCs for private and public workloads for better security on project needs
o Lambda: Used Lambda service for backend automatic tasks based upon the events and triggers
o IAM / Service Accounts: Created accounts / access keys for secured access to AWS services
o Access Key ID and Secure Access Keys: are set up to be rotated for secured programmatic access.
o MFA: Enabled Multi-Factor Authentication for login to the AWS Console for enhanced security
o Elastic Beanstack / LightSail: Appropriately used for a couple of web applications hosting.
o ELB / AutoScaling: Configured to balance the load and auto-scale instances for production site
o Gateways: Setup storage gateway and VP gateways to interconnect AWS and data centers
o Security Groups / NACLs: Configured SG rules and NACLs for securing instances and subnets
o EFS: Setup EFS for common data sharing between various instances and services
o CloudFront: Configured CloudFront (CDN) for faster access of Origin sites by users worldwide
o Route 53: Configured DNS service for name resolution/routing of hosted zones
o CloudWatch / CloudTrail: Configured for events / alarms and used trail logs for analysis/auditing
o CloudFormation: Configured some stacks / templates and automated resources creation
o Systems Manager: Installed agents in local & AWS servers. Maintained the inventory and patching.
o Trusted Advisor: Made use of the report generated by Trusted Advisor to identify utilization
o SNS / SQS: Used Notification and Queue services for alerts to Lambda and batch processing
o HA: Architected the services with HA and setup the instances in multiple AZs and regions
o DR/BCP: Used AWS as DR / BCP site for local data center servers and services
o AWS Backup: Used latest AWS Backup service for centralized administration of snapshots of EC2, EBS Volumes, RDS instances and EFS shares by creating backup plans
o Mock Drill: Successfully conducted live mock drills for testing the DR and BCP
o Whitepapers: Regular reader of AWS whitepapers on various services and implementation stories