What It Is

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offering infrastructure and services. On this site, it is part of the practical toolset behind building systems that are easier to understand, operate, and repeat.

Learn more: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/

In My Own Words

Most engagements start because a client needs someone who already knows AWS. What keeps them going is judgment about which AWS services not to use.

Transcript

My name is Michael Orlando and I help people build products with technology. It is common that people will find me because I know a specific technology. I work a lot with cloud technologies — I work a lot with Amazon Web Services. Any kind of service that AWS offers, I usually know how to use it, or can figure out how to use it very quickly, because many of them integrate together. That’s usually where the engagement starts.

However, that’s not the full engagement. Knowing how these systems work with other systems, and also which tools and sub-products should be chosen and not used — that’s a big part of it. I can steer clients away from technology that looks like it might work but won’t actually work for their application. Sometimes it’s very hard to tell. I hope that I can reuse my wasted time trying things for other clients on you, so that you don’t have to waste your time and money figuring out why a solution won’t work. Instead, I can skip some and we can investigate one that might actually work.