Afshan Zahid

A fshan Zahid, I’m an AWS Cloud Engineer focused on cloud computing, infrastructure design, and cloud architecture planning. I’m also a teacher, so I enjoy translating complex cloud concepts into practical, easy-to-adopt solutions.

I’ve built an AWS static website hosting setup using Amazon S3 with IAM access control, and I’m comfortable adding Optional CloudFront CDN integration for performance and reach. I design low-cost, scalable architectures that stay reliable as usage grows.

For application workloads, I’ve implemented a 3-tier web application architecture using VPC with public/private subnets, EC2 application servers, and an RDS database layer. I also use a Load Balancer for high availability and a clean separation of concerns across tiers.

I take cost and efficiency seriously through an AWS cost optimization assessment—identifying underutilized resources, making rightsizing recommendations, and planning storage optimization. I back these improvements with a monitoring and reporting strategy to help organizations sustain secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.