The Creator Highlight sequence pulls again the curtain on a few of AWS’s most prolific authors. Learn on to seek out out extra about our very personal Lewis Tang’s journey, in his personal phrases!
I’ve been a Senior Associate Resolution Architect since becoming a member of Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) in 2019. What I actually get pleasure from about this function helps AWS companions construct profitable companies with AWS companies. Not solely does this fulfill the shopper want, nevertheless it clearly demonstrates what we at Amazon use to drive each choice: buyer obsession! At AWS, we’re inspired to select an space of experience and dive deep into it. I’m obsessed with serving to AWS clients and companions to plan and drive transformation via cloud adoption: transformation and modernization are my areas of experience!
Whether or not it’s an AWS service companion in consulting enterprise or an AWS ISV companion providing software program companies, constructing merchandise and profitable buyer mindshare might be very difficult. To Amazonians, each day is Day 1. Studying with companions about these challenges and collaborating on fixing issues are large components of my day by day Day 1.
Previous to becoming a member of AWS, I used to be a change architect for near a decade. I travelled to work with clients all through Australia, New Zealand, and the ASEAN area on their cloud transformation technique, cloud governance and administration, and to construct their cloud foundational capabilities. Studying with clients face-to-face, diving deep into the business issues, and serving to them invent and simplify their enterprise practices taught me the way to leverage the ability of cloud know-how to ship outcomes. These experiences made me need to pursue this with AWS.
Now, I collaborate with companions at AWS, working backwards from their goal enterprise outcomes to establish and implement the options that can increase their success charges. I additionally present steerage on adopting wide selection of AWS companies to develop an providing that may scale and resolve particular issues in an environment friendly and cost-effective method.
Many people know in regards to the AWS 7Rs migration technique. What you could not know is I’m an enthusiastic practitioner of Replatform and Refactor/Re-architect to modernize enterprise purposes. To advertise and scale the adoption of modernization finest practices, I work with different subject-matter consultants within the Software Modernization Technical Subject Neighborhood to develop thought management content material and publish whitepapers, blogs, and prescriptive steerage (I share my favorites just a little later).
I’ve lately created a Again to Fundamentals video, which explores a number of patterns of operating Microsoft SQL information service on AWS and the automation that these choices present, permitting you to refocus on enterprise innovation.
At occasions like AWS World Summits or AWS re:Invent, I obtain suggestions on these publications and reply questions on software modernization. With companions who’re current at these congresses, I’m able to present steerage on constructing and modernizing their purposes with AWS companies.
In my function with AWS, I’m educated and rewarded day by day: I be taught rather a lot from my AWS companions when working with them to combine AWS companies into their mental property options and gear chains, which helps to speed up AWS buyer software modernization journey. All through these experiences, I grew to become a SME of modernization. It’s instructional and fulfilling to assist builders, clients, and companions resolve their most troublesome issues.
Lewis’s favourite posts!
What to contemplate when migrating information warehouse to Amazon Redshift
My very first weblog at AWS! Many purchasers need to modernize information warehouses by migrating to Amazon Redshift as a result of their present information warehouse is just not constructed for at this time’s information analytics wants (like information varieties, quantity, and velocity).
An information warehouse migration undertaking might be difficult. This put up helps you safe a profitable supply of an information warehouse migration undertaking by discussing information warehouse migration methods and the adoption of an optimum migration course of for a offered use case and the most effective practices of AWS migration instruments, comparable to AWS Schema Conversion Device.
Operating hybrid Lively Listing service with AWS Managed Microsoft Lively Listing
When migrating and modernizing software with AWS, clients typically must have purposes on AWS to work with different purposes situated exterior of AWS, comparable to an on-premise information middle. Many of those purposes use Microsoft Lively Listing (AD) service for authentication, configuration, and administration.
On this put up, I focus on the advantages of utilizing AWS Managed Microsoft Lively Listing service and the design patterns of a hybrid AD service utilizing AWS Managed Microsoft AD.
Concerns for modernizing Microsoft SQL database service with excessive availability on AWS
Microsoft SQL database is a standard relational database service. AWS clients typically lift-and-shift a Microsoft SQL database to AWS, and so they search steerage on the way to architect high-availability database service on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in single or a number of AWS area situation.
On this put up, I shared all of the choices of modernizing Microsoft SQL database service with excessive availability on AWS, together with lift-and-shift to Amazon EC2, replatform with Amazon Relational Database Service, and refactor with Amazon Aurora.
Augmentation patterns to modernize a mainframe on AWS
I’ve had pleasure working with an AWS companion on constructing an AWS-focused mainframe modernization follow. I discovered side-by-side with my companion utilizing mainframe modernization use instances. By working with AWS Mainframe Modernization service workforce and SMEs in Technical Subject Neighborhood, I printed this put up to share the design patterns of modernizing a mainframe via constructing augmentation options on AWS. Plus, my companion is constructing service choices based mostly on these patterns!
Strengthening Cloud Governance and Optimizing FinOps with LTI Infinity Guarantee
My very first AWS Associate Community weblog, co-authored with my AWS companion Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI). At AWS, buyer obsession might be everybody’s favourite management precept—and, maybe, it’s the best-known management precept amongst AWS clients.
As a companion resolution architect, AWS companions—like LTI—are my rapid clients. Nothing excites me greater than working with my companion to make an answer higher and publish a weblog explaining it to all AWS readers!