Sample bullet templates that prove AWS
Use these as a structural template — verb, scope, outcome. Replace the bracketed numbers with your own (verifiable) figures.
- Architected a serverless data pipeline on AWS Lambda + S3 + DynamoDB; processed 18M events/day at $480/month run rate.
- Migrated a monolithic Django app from EC2 to ECS Fargate; cut deploy time 70% and reduced infra cost 40%.
- Owned IAM and security review for a 60-account AWS Organization; remediated 28 high-severity findings from AWS Config.
Adjacent keywords that cluster with AWS
If a posting mentions AWS, it almost always also mentions some of these. Make sure the ones you've actually used are on your resume.
EC2S3LambdaRDSDynamoDBECSEKSCloudFrontRoute 53IAMVPCTerraformCloudFormationSolutions ArchitectDevOps Engineer
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FAQ
No. List the 6–10 services you've used in production. "EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, CloudFront, IAM" beats a list of 25 names.
Yes for cloud-engineer, DevOps, and Solutions Architect roles. AWS Solutions Architect Associate is the most-requested cert; Pro and Specialty certs add measurable signal at senior levels.
ATS parsers match literals. "Cloud" matches nothing if the posting says AWS. List "AWS" specifically, then GCP and Azure separately if you've used them.
Depends on the company. AWS is the Fortune 500 and tech-startup default; Azure is Microsoft-shop and enterprise default; GCP is data-heavy and Google-orbit default. Tailor to the posting.
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