My name is Rowan Udell and I'm a cloud specialist with over 10 years experience working directly with AWS.

As an active participant in the AWS community online I've been a guest on many AWS podcasts (see below), and I've been part of the AWS Community Builder program since 2022. I was also a founding member of the AWS Ambassadors program.

In addition to my book about AWS IAM, I have been published on the AWS Partner Network (APN) blog talking about AWS IAM.

During this time I have held various AWS certifications, and taken part in the AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) program writing questions for the AWS Certified Security - Specialty exam.

Year Activity
2024 Simplifying Just-in-Time Access Governance using Cedar for CommonFate.io
2024 Speaker at ServerlessDays ANZ Sydney (Panel)
2024 AWS Community Builder
2024 Published 2 blog posts
2024 AWS Summit Sydney Recap panel (Presentation)
2024 So, you've inherited an AWS environment…​ (Presentation)
2024 AWS Certification SME - Specialty (Security)
2023 AWS Ambassador
2023 AWS Community Builder
2023 Published 7 blog posts
2023 Chatting With Cloud Specialist With Over 10 Years Of Hands-On Experience With AWS (Podcast)
2023 Master IAM with Rowan Udell (Podcast)
2023 10 Years of IAM, Writing a Practical IAM Guide, and Serverless Trends (Podcast)
2023 Pre:Reinvent Serverless Panel (Presentation)
2023 Who's driving this thing? Evented serverless applications (Presentation)
2023 The Practical AWS IAM Guide (Book)
2023 AWS Certification SME - Specialty (Security)
2022 AWS Ambassador
2022 AWS Community Builder
2022 Provide feedback and input to IAM Access Analyzer team (Brigid Johnson@AWS)
2022 Published 1 blog post
2022 AWS Certification SME - Specialty (Security)
2021 Official APN Blog: IAM's 10th Anniversary blog post
2021 AWS Ambassador
2021 Published 5 blog posts
2021 Painting with IAM: Least Privilege Policies (Presentation)
2020 AWS Ambassador
2020 Published 3 blog posts
2019 AWS Ambassador
2019 Published 5 blog posts
2019 AWS Sydney Partner Summit Technical Keynote (Presentation)
2018 AWS Ambassador
2018 Published 6 blog posts
2018 Serverless Operations (aka. LessOps) (Presentation)
2018 Serverless Workflows using Step Functions with Rowan Udell (Podcast)
2017 AWS Ambassador
2017 Published 9 blog posts
2017 The Serverless Framework: Build a Chatbot (Course)
2017 The AWS Administration Cookbook (Book)
2017 Serverless Experts Panel (Panel)
2017 AWS Sydney Summit Presentation (Presentation)
2017 Serverless as a Consulting Cash Register (now accepting Bitcoin!) (Podcast)
2016 AWS Cloud Warrior
2016 Published 10 blog posts
2016 AWS Experts Panel (Panel)
2016 Apex Presentation at the inaugural Sydney Serverless Meetup (Presentation)