Hey Trevor, thank you so much for your insights. I have a question though, I am a new PhD graduate and will be having my first interview for an Applied Scientist position at Amazon. Do they ask a lot of leadership questions even though I have little experience in industry? Best

Thank you so much for a clear explanation

Super helpful! Any tips on what to use now that LLMChain is deprecated?

Okay, let's be real here, and let me ask a question. How many entry jobs will you find as a Cloud Administrator? CCNA will get you your first job overwhelmingly.

Thank you very much!

Nice shirt!!

I don't have a degree (yet), but I did purchase architect solutions AWS from Udemy, can I get a job for that?

My first real dev job I got 2 years out of university, at this startup that delivers system integrations through a homemade platform. I worked for 3 years as a developer, mainly writing integration scripts on the platform, while often working with the clients in discussing the implementation requirements. After this I was ‘promoted’ to the SA ‘team’ which was really just one of the seniors. I’ve been working as an SA there now a year and a half, and I mostly enjoy it. Primarily my duty is translating how a customer desires their data to flow between their systems into a technical specification for the dev team. The main thing I worry about though, is that my expertise and work experience is too specialized for this platform and type of work, that if I were to try to get any other SA job, that I would not have the knowledge or business acumen to deliver good work, and that if I were to go back to dev I would also not have as much knowledge as someone with my experience should (since I’ve mostly just been writing scripts and not doing any real system work). Since it’s a startup too, there’s a lot of work on not a lot of people, so there isn’t that much time or opportunity to do any general course/certificate work either, or a lot of money they can put into such either… my salary is also quite low compared to other SAs in my area. Would love if anyone has any advice on my situation or have been in something similar before. Maybe I’m overestimating the skill and experience that is required, just makes me worry about if I’m making a good decision staying here, but I love the people and I have faith in our product.

I think 💭 I would enjoy pre-sale or maybe internal

Thank you 👩🏽‍💻 my ultimate goal is to become a cloud ☁️ solutions architect #aws

Very helpful and insightful! Thank you!

ton of value on this video! thank you!

Crystal clear 🤝

Thank you! How about embedding PDF files and stored in S3 ？

I have an phone screen interview tomorrow. Recruiter informed me about the short info about the interview pattern, looks quite tense for me. He told me there could be pair programming on DSA and Leadership principles thing.

Thaks Trevor!

Isn't networking much easier to get into than cloud ? Cloud has so many branches and subsidiaries. ..

Hi I have this app working perfectly on my local laptop in streamlite, however when I try to run from EC2 instance, I get Error raised by bedrock service: Unable to locate credentials, any idea how I can fix this error

Osm session🔥🔥 , really informative. Thank you for posting such video.

Thanks for all the information. So much fun building this project.

Oof definitely guilty of that last one, I always come off super energetic, but sometimes the pressure gets to me and I fumble the answer 😂 and then the thought of me fumbling makes me fumble even more 😅

Awesome video! Just what I needed!

My boss told me to do both, he’s paying for so I’m like why not… he explained network plus will help me with fundamentals while ccna will help me own my skill set in role specific in network

great video - is it possible to have the code reference data in a database or excel file when answering user prompts?

I have been advised to to take CCNA if I want career in Cyber Security. Not sure if this is correct.

I have an interview tomorrow. However, all these videos have me shaken.

Hi Trevor. Is it appropriate to check interviewers’ profile on LinkedIn? During loop interview, I am thinking of asking a question about their career development at Amazon and the reason why they changed direction (if any). For example from engineering to product manager. I want to get to know better about the company culture, but worried these questions might make me sound unsure with the position I am applying.

I have a Mirrorless camera with a Summilux 25mm 1.4 motorized lens, as well as a LUMIX 20mm auto. I see that your mid Elgato $279 option specifies in their manual no Motorized lenses, only threaded ones. Does your premium number 1 option for $600 allow for motorized lenses? I see you mentioned using a 16-50 and it looks to be motorized. Any issue with using a motorized lens with the premium setup?

Could you please tell me how to get data from the S3 bucket and build an AI App?

Hello, 3 days after my Amazon LOOP interview, I received an Email from the recruiter congratulating me on the positive feedback for my interview, but unfortunately unable to offer me the position because someone else filled the position. I noticed that the position was no longer available even before my LOOP. They said that they will put me in the bench pool and that if available position comes, they will contact all the people in the bench pool before making the position public. I am worried, hope they will remember to get back to me? I practiced really so hard for this LOOP

Great advice, Trevor. Thanks a lot!

I have experience in networking on cisco tac and had ccna ccnp. Already got SAA. should I move to advanced networking course now or should I do sysops first? Thanks

Good stuff. Thank you!

I had practiced with one of Directors of Product at Amazon my behavioural. He actually recommend to have 4 strong master (big) stories. But, you have to be able to adjust those master stories to 1) all leadership principles and to 2) the question itself. So you have extract only relevant situations/context from those master stories with high relevance to the question and to the leadership principle interviewer wanted to test you by asking this particular question. So the best way - to think about stories and make a list of question relevant to all principles and try to answer those questions based on all of those stories. So you could mix stories from interviewer to intervier to not repeat the same experince to all interviewers in different calls.

Your video was very helpful, it gave me a good idea of ​​how to start estimating costs to propose a project for the company (annual revenue of +10B) I work for

Thank you for your explanations. I watched a different prep video. It was excellent, however, not relatable if you're a new college graduate or pivoting careers.

Hey. Do you recommend taking this one after SAA? or should I get "all three" first? Or if want to go to SAA professional after SAA, what would be the path? Thxs

Thank you Trevor! Very helpful. I was wondering if Solution Architect are only in tech companies? Are they called something different in other industries?

Thanks for all your advice and tips! Really helped me out during the Loop

Hi Trevor.. Glad I met another SA Presales person cause often i find less videos on Presales. Can you please share your experience on Desinging phase that Soultion Artchitect Presales go through while solutioning for a customer.. For ex a video conferencing solution .. To what level do we deep dive in the design phase?

Thanks for the wonderful and informative video. I can't agree more that your content has always been helpful. I have 15 years of experience as a Java Developer and I have worked on variety of Java Front End and backend technologies right from Swing and MV* frameworks , Struts 1.2 , Ejb 2.0 till Spring. Also Worked in Cloud roughly in 2012 and then back since 2019. My question to you is that is it really worth doing a certification or have working knowledge and hands on for AWS ?. I have met a lot of developers who say that they have completed the Aws Certifications. some have even completed 6 of them. But when it comes to working on the production environment and handling real world scenarios , not even one of them succeeded and all were struggling. I do not have any certification from AWS. but I still lead a team of developers and mostly I have to pull them out from these issues by using my limited knowledge. This has worked for me for more than 5 years now. Please let me know if I should still do the certification and which certification to do.. Some specific or the one which has a broader coverage . Thanks in advance

hey i have the loop interview next week til now i did not prepare very well for the interview should i move up to two weeks ?

How many points would you recomend for Action and Results ? Like 3? Then, I don't overwhelmed the interviewer.

The start method is useless. Why? Because most of the applicants make up their stories. They lie. Most of them do not have the experience they are talking about. I've talked to multiple people at Amazon who did that to get the job.

I have to ask you a question. Is it possible to get into aws without the foundational A+ network+ certifications?

Hey I am here to say this video was one of the ones that helped me get an offer for an L6 position. Thank you

The story you gave on how fast you were able to turn around a product didn't answer the question, which was about a time you missed a customer deadline.

Awesome, just bought 1 from the dojo

hello sir!!! I have a issue in creating the knowledge base. When I create it shows failed to create open search serverless collection.eventhough I gave the full access access for bedrock and opensearch service for the user and made the s3 bucket to be accessed by the opensearch service, the issues is not fixed. can you help me to clear that issue? I'm struggling with that issue !!! please help me !!!

Hey there! I'm part of a team who's trying to implement Bedrock with a particular task of assigning data from one source in the knowledge base to another source in the same knowledge base. Something we've been noticing with Agents is that they tend to become more and more inaccurate with the more data is stored in the knowledge base. I was wondering if you had any advice on improving accuracy? We've also been looking at their finetuning service they offer, but are not sure if that would offer any significant improvement in accuracy for our particular RAG Agent.