"Nothing AWS offers—no matter how much it might look that way—is an end-user platform"
I don't agree here. I'm definitely in the sysadmin camp but I'd like to think I've advanced from where I was when that was my job title 5 years ago or so.
For us, Cloud Formation was the real eye-opener. We leveraged CF to build a rather sophisticated environment. We referred the CF to our customers who then set it up on their own. We did this over several customers, with various degrees of AWS experience from zero to expert, and various backgrounds from security, to network, to IT. All were successful. I'd describe all as end-users.
The reproducibility, atomicity, and ease of this solution gave us huge gains.
I don't agree here. I'm definitely in the sysadmin camp but I'd like to think I've advanced from where I was when that was my job title 5 years ago or so.
For us, Cloud Formation was the real eye-opener. We leveraged CF to build a rather sophisticated environment. We referred the CF to our customers who then set it up on their own. We did this over several customers, with various degrees of AWS experience from zero to expert, and various backgrounds from security, to network, to IT. All were successful. I'd describe all as end-users.
The reproducibility, atomicity, and ease of this solution gave us huge gains.