And their value prop that you need expensive hard-to-find AWS DevOps Engineers to run your AWS infra is just fear-mongering.
I think people vastly overestimate how hard it is to learn AWS. It may seem daunting at first but it only takes like a week -- one good YouTube series to cover the basics like IAM, and a lot of playing around with the GUI console, CloudFormation, and pestering support till it all clicks. Multiple backend devs in your team should be able to own your CloudFormation/Terraform scripts and your cloud infra. I basically did exactly this in my new grad SWE job.
Just fucking learn it. You don't need to hire someone for every little thing. Don't treat AWS like some complex arcane machine that only a 3x AWS-certified "Cloud DevOps Engineer" with 10 years of experience should touch. And for the love of God don't add more 3rd party layers like TFA. Most of the world is raw-dogging AWS, why is your company an exception?
I think people vastly overestimate how hard it is to learn AWS. It may seem daunting at first but it only takes like a week -- one good YouTube series to cover the basics like IAM, and a lot of playing around with the GUI console, CloudFormation, and pestering support till it all clicks. Multiple backend devs in your team should be able to own your CloudFormation/Terraform scripts and your cloud infra. I basically did exactly this in my new grad SWE job.
Just fucking learn it. You don't need to hire someone for every little thing. Don't treat AWS like some complex arcane machine that only a 3x AWS-certified "Cloud DevOps Engineer" with 10 years of experience should touch. And for the love of God don't add more 3rd party layers like TFA. Most of the world is raw-dogging AWS, why is your company an exception?