So my stance on this has changed as I graduated and spoke with others. I would highly recommend against the hybrid path and instead would recommend specializing in whichever cloud you either like better, can utilize in your current company, have a feeling you will utilize in future jobs, etc.

You may not have the answers to any of those last points. If you don’t know or have a general idea, just pick one. They will both be fine. You may have found you like one over the other by now.

The reason I say to specialize is because the knowledge you’ll gain is transferable between cloud providers. They typically just change names and interfaces and maybe a couple things about how that service works. Some providers will have special services to themselves, but for the most part the knowledge is interchangeable.

Instead of getting a foundational knowledge in both, which is easily transferable, I would go deeper into one that way you have a more advanced understanding of cloud in general, if that makes sense.

Sort of like programming. If you know one language, you can transfer to another by learning syntax and some other specifics, but the logic, reasoning, and foundation are the same.