Yeah, I started out my career as a system admin and the AWS infrastructure stuff always made me fear my job was going to disappear. In reality, it's just made p

Yeah, I started out my career as a system admin and the AWS infrastructure stuff always made me fear my job was going to disappear. In reality, it's just made people aware that the skillset most system admins have were closer to those of a software developer anyway. As everything moves to the DevOps model, I find that under DevOps, "AWS Admin" as a job goes away, and your developers all just know a lot about more about AWS since that's part of the underlying stack. AWS is a lot easier for developers to conceptualize as well - they're just logical objects that can be created/destroyed like programmatic objects can. Used to be that if you needed a new server, you'd have to talk to your sysadmin and get a VM provisioned, keys issued, etc. but with AWS all you have to do is issue a method to a class in your framework of choice (since AWS has SDK libraries for most languages/frameworks), and the VM is created, provisioned and integrated into your application like no work needed to happen.