A 29-year-old man in Ukraine was arrested this week for using hacked accounts to create 1 million virtual servers used to mine $2 million in cryptocurrency.
Nobody thinks about how they’re going to compose their resources anymore, all the AWS “experts” just spit out their AWS training verbatim without any thoughts of their own.
There are absolutely AWS experts that will give comprehensive answers and solutions, but many times those don’t get hired because there’s this other guy that’s cheaper and says we can “do it for a fraction of the first guy”.
Yeah they do exist, I just think they’re also usually not the ones that carry all the (mostly useless) certs. Those certs are designed to maximize profits for AWS, not to optimize for best bang for the buck. And the ones that do get the certs get them because they want to be hired and have little else to show. But companies treat those certs like they’re university degrees.
You’re not going to get those certs by answering “Don’t use AWS Private CA, you can use OpenSSL in a Lambda to make them for free and save hundreds every month” or “Don’t use the AWS VPN because they charge per client connections and session duration, just set up a t4g.nano with WireGuard and it’s just as good and costs only a couple cents a month for a proper 24/7 always on VPN for the whole dev team”. The “correct” answer is obviously that using a managed service is always better.
Even the AWS advisors they give you for free with your big enterprise contract are basically glorified salespeople for AWS.
Are there good AWS experts out there? Absolutely! I’m just pointing out the industry heavily favors producing the wrong kind of expert. The good experts know their shit regardless of the cloud or what your servers run. And those get turned down because of salary or simply failing to answer some AWS trivia that would take 10 minutes to look up and understand.
There are absolutely AWS experts that will give comprehensive answers and solutions, but many times those don’t get hired because there’s this other guy that’s cheaper and says we can “do it for a fraction of the first guy”.
Yeah they do exist, I just think they’re also usually not the ones that carry all the (mostly useless) certs. Those certs are designed to maximize profits for AWS, not to optimize for best bang for the buck. And the ones that do get the certs get them because they want to be hired and have little else to show. But companies treat those certs like they’re university degrees.
You’re not going to get those certs by answering “Don’t use AWS Private CA, you can use OpenSSL in a Lambda to make them for free and save hundreds every month” or “Don’t use the AWS VPN because they charge per client connections and session duration, just set up a t4g.nano with WireGuard and it’s just as good and costs only a couple cents a month for a proper 24/7 always on VPN for the whole dev team”. The “correct” answer is obviously that using a managed service is always better.
Even the AWS advisors they give you for free with your big enterprise contract are basically glorified salespeople for AWS.
Are there good AWS experts out there? Absolutely! I’m just pointing out the industry heavily favors producing the wrong kind of expert. The good experts know their shit regardless of the cloud or what your servers run. And those get turned down because of salary or simply failing to answer some AWS trivia that would take 10 minutes to look up and understand.