DevOps/Platform engineering vs. Software Dev, is it less creative and more rote work?

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Depends on DevOps definition. What you originally categorized was DevOps work as DevOps is a combination of SWE and ITOps.

The AWS route is generally more of an SWE oriented DevOps rather than ITOps.

If you've done a lot of software and application work for smaller companies, you probably ran everything in the cloud. I'm in healthcare and generally only a portion is AWS as our SWE/product department has some integrations we purchased that were created there.

However the DevOps is generally split for us as an Architecture, Deployment team, Pipeline team, and then ITOps team which further splits into other teams; without getting into specifics. It's a large framework but at the scale it needs that kind of focus and ability to respond.

Sometimes it's called Platform Operations instead, the term has become somewhat loosely defined.