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.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:• Putting RDS SQL Servers on a public IP with no protection• No templating of servers so if it disappears you have no record of how to get a new one running again• Servers with SSH password authentication turned on with passwords of “Password”, because SSH key auth was “too hard for our devs”• No backups because “it’s in the cloud, isn’t the cloud backing it up for me, like iCloud?”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.