Michael (Mike) Zazon is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he sets strategic technology direction with financial services customers. He has spent more than 25 years designing, building, and running infrastructure: a web hosting company he co-founded in 2000, university systems at Ohio State, a multi-cloud consultancy, and almost five years in AWS Professional Services. He co-wrote the AWS Cookbook (O'Reilly Media) with John Culkin and created Cloud Projects, an open-source library of more than 1,100 cloud recipes. These days he also writes about architecture, homelab, and AI agents on his personal site. His writing and opinions are his own, not his employer's.