What Does An AWS Solutions Architect Actually Do? Explained In 5 Minutes
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Published: 2022-06-19 13:08:18

hey everyone this is Ankit and today I am writing about **what a solutions architect does at AWS** now this is a highly requested article topic.

first of all 

> what does a solutions architect do?
 
second of all 

> what are some of the roles and responsibilities of an AWS solutions architect?

if you're interested in learning more about the role as a solutions architect the skills required and how you can become a solutions architect in 2022 

so Lucy said in her video given details about this topic. I've been working as an Associate Solutions Architect at AWS for 1 year. 

all right now let's head over to the Amazon jobs page okay so according to the amazon's job page the solutions architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies by partnering with internal teams and leveraging deep technical knowledge of our tools and products

she said " you'll craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address our customer's business problems
come join us in making the impossible possible well that the last sentence sounded pretty cool 
            
I thought I add to this because after hearing about the solutions architect role for the first time it might be hard to figure out what exactly we do and why was needs solutions architects in the first place

so without the help of a solutions architect customers can still use the products and services that AWS offers but with over 200 to choose from and hundreds of pages of documentation about how to use them it can be quite hard to know what's the best solution for their particular situation and this is where a solutions architect comes in a solutions 

the architect is essentially a trusted advisor for the customer as they go through their journey with using the cloud so AWS solutions architects didn't go into the customer's
console and build everything out for them we have other teams at AWS to help with that and we also collaborate with other companies as well for them to help the customer out with the more hands-on implementation 

but what we do instead is provide technical guidance to help the customers make architectural decisions that not only follow the best practices but also make sure that the solutions are secure performant cost-optimized and also fault-tolerant now when it comes to the roles and responsibilities of a solutions architect it does vary depending on the team that you're in and the type of solutions architect that you are so

there are many teams that we have at aws there's the enterprise team there's a smaller medium business team digital native business team there are a few different types of teams and these teams are usually split up depending on the different customers that we have at AWS

but we also have other teams with specialist essays that focus on a specific knowledge domain for example there are security specialist solutions architects or solutions architects who focus more on networking or databases but generally speaking solutions architects

typically focus around half of their time engaging with customers and helping them out this could be through the form of having a whiteboarding session where you're showing them what architecture would look like if they were to move on AWS solutions architect could also be building out a proof of concept for a customer and showcasing that through a demo they could also be doing an architectural review to help the customers improve on their architecture or they could be simply just helping the
customer out by answering some of their questions either through email or through a call so you might be wondering well if half the time is spent with customers what do essays do during the other half of their time so the rest of.
                                                                
the time is typically split between internal meetings speaking at events writing blogs running technical workshops sometimes mentoring other solutions architects or even creating a new program at aws that can provide some sort of value at the scale we also have something we do all sharpen the store time

where we cover up some time for learning and this involves studying for AdWords certifications to catch you up with new
product updates or diving deep into learning more about a set of AWS services so the role of a solutions architect has many elements to it part of it is talking to the customer
 
I've officially graduated from that techie program and joined my current team where I'm working with customers and helping them accelerate their cloud journey as you probably hear just like any other role in the tech industry, no two days are the same the main distinction between an associate solutions architect versus a solutions architect is that we have a lot more guidance and support when it comes to learning so what I do is I can spend a lot of my time doing shadowing and reverse shadowing different customers so if I ever want to receive feedback on how I'm talking in front of a customer and how I'm engaging with the customer, I can ask for a more senior essay to reverse shadow me and that way I can get some feedback that's what I spend a lot of my time doing these days. "

still, she is doing a lot of learning doing AWS certifications and his next goal is to complete the advs security specialty certification there are also a lot of meetings as well throughout the day in the form of internal meetings and team stand-ups. she said " we also have a bunch of
customer meetings something else I'm doing in AWS is helping students and people earning their career learn more about cloud and also develop career-ready skills alright so this brings us. "

so to the  end of this article thank you so much for reading and if you have any questions please leave them down below and
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