About the authors

Eric Z. Beard, a former United States Marine, has nearly two decades of experience in technology, leading diverse DevOps and solutions architecture teams. Eric is currently a manager at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington, and holds nine AWS certifications.

First I have to thank my wife, Kate, for being so patient with me while I worked on this book over many nights and weekends. Without her support, I can't imagine how I'd be successful in any of my endeavors. I would also like to thank Rowan Udell and Lucas Chan, authors of the first edition of the book. They gave me a great foundation to work from, and much of the content they created is still in this edition, mostly intact with minor edits to reflect changes made by AWS since that printing. And a big shout out to the people on the service teams at AWS who work so hard to keep innovating on behalf of customers.

Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities.

Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

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