DevOps is just the mixing of system administration and software development. My company has a single team that handles all the technical matters, from cert and

DevOps is just the mixing of system administration and software development. My company has a single team that handles all the technical matters, from cert and domain registration to database and system administration to CSS tweaks on the website. We're a devops team. It isn't necessarily the case that each and every member of the team is conversant with all the technologies involved, but each member is ready to co-pilot and pick up those tasks if necessary. A devops engineer, similarly, is one that is conversant with many of these technologies themselves, and is competent to be at least a stand-in sysadmin, dba, developer, or whatever. I don't think devops is dying; a company with <10 technical employees probably needs almost every one to be devops; there just aren't enough people to silo some of them away. As a technical organization grows, more and more of the hires can be narrowly specialized, and should be, because devops hires are often going to be more expensive and less effective at any one narrow specialization. AWS is just one of the tools in the toolkit of a devops engineer. [edit for grammar]