Ben Smith
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Upcoming live online training courses
May 6, 2024
Top 5 AWS Architecture and Infrastructure Strategies
Best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith will show you how to execute tasks and assist with managing AWS resources for production and at scale. This focused training will explore 5 key ...
May 13 & 14, 2024
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Crash Course
In this all-new live training course, Chad Smith will introduce you to the concepts and objectives in the updated SAA-C03 exam and walk you through the key topics so you get ...
May 15, 22 & 29, 2024
Hands-on AWS in 3 Weeks
The AWS ecosystem is expanding rapidly, and it is important to follow best practices and good architecture design at the start, to prevent backtracking later. The Hands-on AWS Bootcamp will help ...
May 20 & 21, 2024
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Crash Course
In this live course, experienced AWS trainer and best-selling video author Chad Smith will walk you through the important concepts covered in Amazon’s CLF-C02 exam. Designed with a focus on teaching ...
June 5 & 6, 2024
AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02) Crash Course
Finally, best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith will share his extensive knowledge of the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam so you can learn best practices and prepare for exam day with ...
June 10 & 11, 2024
Getting Started with AWS
Best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith has designed this course to teach the essentials to adopting a cloud-first strategy. This title includes hands-on demos throughout and acts as a deep dive ...
June 17, 2024
Generative AI for Cloud Practitioners
Best-selling author and trainer Chad Smith will discuss generative AI in the context of application workloads and as tools to be used by developers, DevOps professionals, data analysts, and others. He ...
June 24 & 25, 2024
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) Crash Course
Finally, Chad Smith will share his extensive knowledge of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional subject matter so you can learn best practices and prepare for exam day with confidence. ...
June 26, 2024
Hands-on AWS Operations with ChatGPT
Taught by expert trainer and author Chad Smith, Hands-on AWS Operations with ChatGPT provides focused training on using Large Language Models (LLMs) for real work, focusing on security, networking, compute, storage, ...
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Bio
Ben Smith, a senior security strategist at Microsoft, researches methods to help organizations enhance security through effective management and measurement techniques. He speaks at IT conferences worldwide and was the inaugural chair of the vendor-neutral security certification, CompTIA Security+.