Does one learn more about a cloud
working in a company that uses AWS/Azure/etc or working in the cloud service itself?
Yes and no. As an outsider you learn more about technology that best fit your use case and you could master multiple technologies at once. Being in AWS, I feel I know more about AWS than what else is out there.
Our customers know more than us PMs here. As a PM or Dev in any cloud service provider, you'll be siloed but at a similar role at a customer company, you'll be exposed to a wide variety of services.
If you’re actually using the service you would know more. A typical platform running on aws would be ec2/ lambda, cloudformation, s3 & dynamodb, codedeploy. If you’re working in AWS, you’re gonna be working in 1 slice of 1 service
No, not necessarily. There are a ton of orgs (there are 20k+ of us in these orgs) in AWS that exposes you to all sorts of services and customers that don't only silo you into 1 slice of 1 service.
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