AWS 101 - An Introduction to the Amazon Cloud with Patrick Hannah

For our September Meetup, we'll be partnering with the AWS User Group of Florida in Jacksonville to bring you a whirlwind tour of the AWS platform and an opportunity to walk away with some AWS swag!

Patrick Hannah of CloudHesive, LLC, will be presenting an introduction and high-level overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the capabilities of Amazon's cloud computing platform. 

As one of the market leaders in cloud computing, Amazon AWS offers a complete range of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services, with its core offerings including compute, storage, and networking. 

Topics will include:

• Cloud Overview and Market

• AWS Background & Overview

• AWS Services

• Q&A

Speaker Details

Patrick Hannah is the VP of Engineering and co-founder of CloudHesive, a cloud consulting and managed services provider. Mr. Hannah is responsible for the execution of CloudHesive’s professional services engagements as well as the management of CloudHesive’s managed services customers. 

Prior to co-founding CloudHesive, Mr. Hannah held technology management positions in organizations not only well known in South Florida but also nationally and internationally. Prior to CloudHesive, Mr. Hannah was the senior manager of the cloud engineering team at Pegasystems – an enterprise software company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Hannah, while at Pega helped grow their cloud platform into a solution capable of supporting the most stringent requirements from enterprise customers in regulated industries. 

Prior to Pegasystems, Mr. Hannah spent 8 years at Arise Virtual Solutions – a work-at-home BPO in Miramar, Florida. During his tenure at Arise, Mr. Hannah designed, implemented and managed the companies contact center platform which allowed Arise to not only expand out of the South Florida market to a national presence but expand internationally as well. Patrick is married and resides in Fort Lauderdale.