Writer Highlight: Seth Eliot, Principal Reliability Options Architect at AWS

The Writer 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 Seth Eliot’s journey, in his personal phrases!

At Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) and Amazon, we speak about “tremendous powers” rather a lot. Everybody has them! I’ve found that mine is to take technical subjects and make them actionable for builders and inner/exterior stakeholders in any respect ranges.

As Principal Reliability Options Architect for AWS Nicely-Architected, I work with prospects on subjects equivalent to catastrophe restoration, assessing resilience, and chaos engineering. What I actually enjoyabout this position is how a lot I be taught every single day. Clients at all times have new challenges, and I really like discovering new options for them. At occasions like AWS International Summits or AWS re:Invent, I get pleasure from interacting with prospects, equivalent to after I run Chalk Talks, the place I reply questions from the viewers about reliability within the cloud.

Previous to becoming a member of AWS, I used to be a Options Architect for one in every of AWS’s greatest prospects—Amazon.com! I traveled all over the world to work hands-on with Amazon builders in locations like Japan and Luxembourg to assist modernize their workloads on AWS and get essentially the most out of AWS applied sciences, like serverless and containers. Assembly face-to-face with of us and serving to them use these applied sciences was actually rewarding and really instructional.

I’ve additionally labored as a Principal Engineer with Amazon Contemporary grocery supply and Amazon Worldwide Expertise. These had been two very totally different areas to work in, however they each have improvement groups everywhere in the world that I used to be honored to assist with their software program design, agile improvement, and profession steering. By now, you’re probably noticing a sample in my profession…?

When you return a bit additional, I spent about 5 years working “throughout the lake” from Amazon HQ in Seattle, Washington, at Microsoft in Redmond throughout a extremely fascinating second of their historical past: shifting, culturally and technically, from a “field product” firm to 1 that creates software program companies. I’m proud to have performed a task in that transfer!

I’m a “boomerang,” that means that I really was with Amazon previous to my time with Microsoft, and I got here again. Throughout my first stint right here, I labored on the unique group that launched what would grow to be Prime Video. Again then, it was download-only expertise (not streaming) and known as “Amazon Unbox.” From the place I sit now, it’s superb to see how the product has advanced.

All through these experiences, the factor that retains me going is the chance to assist builders and stakeholders to unravel their onerous issues. There may be nothing extra satisfying than after assembly with an individual or group, getting suggestions from them that I used to be capable of assist them.

Seth’s favourite posts!

What’s New within the Nicely-Architected Reliability Pillar?

My first AWS weblog put up! The actual work was updating the AWS Nicely-Architected Reliability Pillar itself. I loved collaborating with many good specialists throughout AWS to harness their various views within the pillar replace. Benefit from the learn!

Catastrophe Restoration (DR) Structure on AWS sequence

Constructing Resilient Nicely-Architected Workloads Utilizing AWS Resilience Hub

I used to be actually excited by the discharge of AWS Resilience Hub (and was honored to be a part of growing it). Lastly, lots of the greatest practices I speak about with prospects at the moment are mechanically assessed in opposition to your workload with suggestions.

Making a Multi-Area Software with AWS Providers sequence