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Imtiaz Sayed

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What is AWS (Amazon Web Services)?

With over 200 fully-featured services available across the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most widely used cloud platform globally. Even though there are a few worthy competitors, it doesn’t seem like anyone will push them off the podium for a while.

For example, keeping up with AWS’ pace of innovation can be challenging. The growth of AWS services and features has been tremendous each year, as demonstrated in the graph below. In 2011, AWS introduced over 80 significant services and features, followed by nearly 160 in 2012, 280 in 2013, 516 in 2014, 722 in 2015, 1,017 in 2016, 1,430 in 2017, 1,957 in 2018, 2,345 in 2019, 2,757 in 2020, and 3,084 in 2021.

Figure 1.1: AWS – number of features released per year

There is no doubt that the number of offerings will continue to grow at a similar rate for the foreseeable future. Gartner named AWS as a leader for the 12th year in a row in the 2022 Gartner Magic...

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Saurabh Shrivastava

Saurabh Shrivastava is a technology leader, author, inventor, and public speaker with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Global Solutions Architect Leader and enables global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to the cloud. Saurabh led the AWS global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and nurtured multiple new strategic initiatives. Saurabh has authored various blogs and whitepapers across a diverse range of technologies, such as big data, IoT, machine learning, and cloud computing. He is passionate about the latest innovations and their impact on our society and daily life. He holds a patent in the area of cloud platform automation. Before AWS, Saurabh worked as an enterprise solution architect, software architect, and software engineering manager in Fortune 50 enterprises, start-ups, and global product and consulting organizations.
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Neelanjali Srivastav

Neelanjali Srivastav is a technology leader, product manager, agile coach, and cloud practitioner with over 16 years of experience in the software industry. She currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Senior Product Manager and enables global customers on their data journey to the cloud. Neelanjali evangelizes and enables AWS customer and partners in AWS database, analytics, and machine learning services. She sets the product vision and cultivates new products in incubation. Before AWS, Neelanjali led teams of software engineers, solutions architects, and systems analysts to modernize IT systems and develop innovative software solutions for large enterprises. Neelanjali has held multiple roles in the IT services industry and R&D, focusing on enterprise application management, cloud service management, and orchestration.
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Alberto Artasanchez

Alberto Artasanchez is a solutions architect with expertise in the cloud, data solutions, and machine learning, with a career spanning over 28 years in various industries. He is an AWS Ambassador and publishes frequently in a variety of cloud and data science publications. He is often tapped as a speaker on topics including data science, big data, and analytics. He has a strong and extensive track record of designing and building end-to-end machine learning platforms at scale. He also has a long track record of leading data engineering teams and mentoring, coaching, and motivating them. He has a great understanding of how technology drives business value and has a passion for creating elegant solutions to complicated problems.
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Imtiaz Sayed

Imtiaz (Taz) Sayed leads the Worldwide Data Analytics Solutions Architecture community at AWS. He is a Principal Solutions Architect, and works with diverse customers engaging in thought leadership, strategic partnerships and specialized guidance on building modern data platforms on AWS. He is a technologist with over 20 years of experience across several domains including distributed architectures, data analytics, service mesh, databases, and DevOps.
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