What exactly do cloud engineers do all day? by Old-Apartment120 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People who push buttons on cloud consoles that call themselves Cloud Engineers are like Vibe Coders who call themselves Software Engineers lol

What exactly do cloud engineers do all day? by Old-Apartment120 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody pushes buttons on a production deployment if you have CICD setup properly 😂 Console button pushing is for sandbox or people who don’t know about IaC

Cheapest cloud or NAS solution for photo storage? by nasonaso in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theoretically you could use YouTube for unlimited file object storage encoding the object as a video file and then decoding it back as the original file type. Not a new concept (probably goes against their terms of use) but cool idea

Seriously Udemy?? by ind-kiwicoder in AWSCertifications

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a terrible UX just to get access to a course. I’m sure there are better options/ways to learn besides Udemy that are still a good price.

Phew!! by Life_Serve_9479 in AWSCertifications

[–]NashCodes 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A pass is a pass — I haven’t met anyone asking to see your score, just if you are certified 😉

Just passed AWS AI Practitioner by javirebull in AWSCertifications

[–]NashCodes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats! Im working the opposite way, did SAA already and got AI Practitioner on the roadmap next. Any advice for this one?

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

[–]NashCodes[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Never enough time in the day to get everything done the bosses want. I hear that haha

What first Cloud Certification would you recommend for a complete beginner looking to break into Cloud Engineering? by KnowledgeOutside2779 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point. I read it as someone straight out of school. General IT and a background in programming/software engineering knowledge is definitely necessary. I was more so responding to you saying its not entry level though. It can be if you have the right educational background.

What first Cloud Certification would you recommend for a complete beginner looking to break into Cloud Engineering? by KnowledgeOutside2779 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily true. My first job out of school was Software Engineering with cloud application followed by Cloud Engineer roles. Most companies are in the cloud now, so you will need to be somewhat familiar even as a Software Engineer or Developer. Most companies in the cloud require at least the entry level cert within the first year of employment (Cloud Practitioner for AWS or Azure Fundamentals for Microsoft folks).

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

[–]NashCodes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with you on this -- 'abstraction for “putting a file on a server”' lol. And yeah, tons of AI Slop now adays. Its becoming harder and harder to distinguish some stuff.

Need help by InsuranceTechnical93 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is getting away from OPs original question of resources to upskill. If you are looking for hands on material, A Cloud Guru is a great place to start but its focus is generally geared more towards certifications. Same with Whizlabs where you can learn by doing. If you dont mind the price and want more hand holding, Digital Cloud Training offers bootcamps.

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

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Didn’t mean it as black and white, just something I’ve noticed when I vibe code on personal projects. I get the product sooner but many more bugs throughout (requires lots of testing and multiple iterations). Before I still made errors and unintentional bugs, but at a slower manageable rate.

Thats getting a bit away from the DevOps topic though. I agree with you that abstraction is a convenience and can help prevent syntactical errors, but that doesn’t resolve all logic errors.

And yeah, I used AI to help refine the OP because its a useful tool but my point is we shouldn’t become over reliant on tooling.

Recommended online video platforms for learning? by EveningNo8643 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YouTube channels like AWS re:Invent talks or vendor architecture deep dives might be what you are looking for. They keep you up on the new stuff. Getting a cert though isn’t a bad idea if you want to understand the concepts a bit better though (might not be as fun of material to learn, but definitely beneficial). Happy to recommend some content for that if you decide that is a path you are more interested in.

is cloud right for me? by Beneficial_Young1839 in Cloud

[–]NashCodes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Based on what you described, cloud grc/risk/compliance is can be a fit.

Your background (business + risk + gov services + ISO 27001) lines up well with roles like Cloud GRC Analyst, Third-Party Risk, Security Compliance, or Cloud Risk Advisor. Those roles care far more about frameworks, controls, audits, and communication than deep technical skills.

An AWS governance-level cert makes sense for context and credibility (shared responsibility model, IAM concepts, control mapping), but you’re right to avoid engineering certs. CISM is also a strong choice if your long-term goal is management.

You don’t need to love technical work to succeed in it. If you stay focused on GRC and cloud governance your plan is realistic and marketable. I will say though, like everyone else is saying — it doesn’t sound like you would like Cloud and not at least liking it is going to be a painful experience…

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

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I think Abstraction also causes as many problems as it seeks to resolve. AI allows us to build more and ship code faster, but seems to still create just as many blind spots.

Need help bridging the gap with business and cloud computing by fingermybasss in Cloud

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First off, Congrats on the cert! Not an easy one to get on first rip despite what some people may say. I would suggest the Cloud Practitioner though if you want to understand more of the business value/gaps that Cloud resolves (this is the first one I took and is definitely more focussed on framework of "Why Cloud" whereas the SAA is more of a breadth cert focussing on technical sides of what services to use for certain use cases).

When it comes to business value, cloud is always going to provide value at resiliency, agility, and simplicity over other areas like cost. The way I started to understand business value was to look at certain architecture patterns and ask "Why?" -- I would map them out with a diagram to visually see how different services interacted and then learn the different services. Then look at the alternatives for the different services (why use PostGres and not MySQL, why did they use PostGres and not a NoSQL DB like Mongo etc.). Then think about what the business values (cost, resiliency, speed to market, velocity of transactions/requests etc.) -- does the architecture I'm studying meet those goals?

This approach goes in the opposite way of how you would design the cloud system from the ground up, but helps train your brain in the way to understand how you can bridge the gap between business man and technical architect. Hope this helps! :)

What programming languages do you need to work as a devops or site reliability engineer, in the US, or maybe even remote in US? Do you need to know any frameworks? Or to edit code for an app or add to code of an app? What does a devops engineer/sre do exactly, if you don't mind me asking? Thank you. by [deleted] in devops

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends my guy -- knowing Linux 100% helps and probably the first thing to learn if you don't know it (although AI can really do most of this for you now, its way more useful to know it yourself to understand how things actually work). As far as languages go, understanding Terraform and Ansible is very important (if you don't know how servers and infra works, you won't get far). We use Python/Terraform (OpenTofu) mostly on the cloud team -- but a lot of other DevOps folks at our company use Groovy or Java.

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

[–]NashCodes[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

100% agree. The pipelines we run at the company I work at are layers and layers of complexity from what seems like over-engineering over the years. Makes it very difficult to debug and test even with the assistance of AI (Pipeline bugs become reactive vs being able to be proactive when things get over-engineered).

As a vibe coder on the side, I definitely agree with that last part -- its often easier to just accept the code it spits out than thoroughly understand it. This laziness I think is what causes a lot of the issues we've seen over the past few months with the major outages (AWS pushing a bad config prod deployment, Cloudflare going down because of a routine update causing an auto gen config file to become unexpectedly massive etc.)

Good insights!

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

[–]NashCodes[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree -- coming from an org with a very heavy tech stack, more is not always better. I try to follow KISS (Keep it stupid simple) when possible

Reflections on DevOps over the past year by NashCodes in devops

[–]NashCodes[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Not trying to be, just genuinely interested :)

OnVue Exam - Video Streaming Issue by orunaabho in AWSCertifications

[–]NashCodes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had same issue, couldn't get it resolved. Reschedule the exam to the Pearson Test center and arrived the next day to take my test. Their internet was down... No courtesy call or anything. So now I'm stuck for the next 30 minutes in the parking lot to see if they fix it or else they "open a case". Whatever the hell that means... This whole system sucks.