AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) ARCHITECTURE
Skills to Put on Resume for Solutions Architect at Amazon
AWS Well-Architected Framework, System Design, Customer Obsession & Cost Optimization
Amazon Hiring Philosophy:
Amazon evaluates Solutions Architects on technical depth across AWS core services,
business-acumen, customer obsession, and alignment with Leadership Principles (e.g.,
Customer Obsession, Invent
and Simplify, Think Big
).
1. TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES & ARCHITECTURE DOMAIN
Core AWS Infrastructure & Compute
Compute & Containers:
EC2, AWS Lambda
(Serverless), ECS, EKS (Kubernetes), Fargate,
AWS Batch.
Networking & Delivery:
VPC, Subnets, Transit
Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront (CDN), Direct
Connect, ELB/ALB.
Storage Architecture:
Amazon S3, EBS, EFS,
Glacier, AWS Storage Gateway.
Databases & Analytics:
Amazon RDS,
DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, ElastiCache,
OpenSearch.
Security, Governance & Cost Optimization
Identity & Access:
AWS IAM, Single Sign-On
(AWS IAM Identity Center), Organizations,
Service Control Policies.
Security & Compliance:
KMS, CloudTrail,
GuardDuty, AWS WAF, Secrets Manager, Zero
Trust Security.
Cost Optimization (FinOps):
AWS Cost
Explorer, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances,
Rightsizing, Cost Allocation Tags.
Well-Architected Pillars:
Operational
Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance,
Cost, Sustainability.
Migration, Integration & Automation
Cloud Migration Strategy:
AWS Application
Migration Service (MGN), Database Migration
Service (DMS), 7 Rs Strategy.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Terraform, AWS
CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible.
App Integration:
SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API
Gateway, AWS Step Functions.
AI/ML Services:
Amazon Bedrock,
SageMaker, Rekognition, Polly, Kendra.
Customer Obsession & Leadership Skills
Technical Pre-Sales & Enablement:
Proof of
Concepts (PoCs), Architecture Design Sessions
(ADS), RFP/RFI proposals.
Stakeholder Communication:
Translating
deep technical specs into executive C-suite
business value.
Amazon Leadership Principles:
Customer
Obsession, Ownership, Dive Deep, Earn Trust,
Deliver Results.
System Migration Advisory:
Guiding
enterprise customers through cloud-native
modernization pathways.
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Solutions Architect at Amazon (AWS) Resume Skills Blueprint
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