But AWS specialists get paid more, and if as a sysadmin you push these technologies in your business, you will become a highly paid AWS specialist. This is a b

But AWS specialists get paid more, and if as a sysadmin you push these technologies in your business, you will become a highly paid AWS specialist. This is a big driver for the adoption of any tech - internal teams want to gain specific skills and job titles in order to get paid more somewhere else. I know that sounds cynical but as an engineer this has often been at the back of my mind when choosing technologies - either personally, or as a sweetener to get buy in from other engineers on some architectural choice I know they would otherwise object to.