The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified
I did some freelancing cloud work recently and was shocked at what I saw out there. From small one person operations to startups to large multinational Fortune 500 corporations I saw the same pattern repeated over and over. People using the cloud to spin up infrastructure that have no experience building out infrastructure and making really bad and dangerous mistakes.<p>Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others make it simple to get going but the devil is in the details when it comes to building it right, safe and ready for production.  Just a few examples:<p>• Putting RDS SQL Servers on a public IP with no protection<p>• No templating of servers so if it disappears you have no record of how to get a new one running again<p>• Servers with SSH password authentication turned on with passwords of “Password”, because SSH key auth was “too hard for our devs”<p>• No backups because “it’s in the cloud, isn’t the cloud backing it up for me, like iCloud?”<p>I have an AWS Solution Architect Professional certification and agree you could get a cert and still not be qualified to run or design much on AWS but it does put you ahead of much of what I’ve seen out there.