> At our first meeting our [AWS] account manager brought along his solutions architect. I had never met a solutions architect, so I didn’t really know what they

> At our first meeting our [AWS] account manager brought along his solutions architect. I had never met a solutions architect, so I didn’t really know what they did. > Eventually I realised that I wasn’t the problem. I had the same experience. These free "Solution Architects" are a disgrace to the architecture profession. They are sales person and are paid/rated/motivated to sell you up. Not what is best for you. Ours went over the in-house architect with zero feedback and told our CTO/CIO how shitty the architecture is. Fun. Stay away from them.