I can’t speak too much for small companies. But there are a lot of large enterprises and smaller businesses and government agencies that do use more AWS services than just compute + storage + web services. Do need the elasticity etc.
For instance, I was surprised how large the market was for Amazon Connect - Amazon’s hosted call centers. It’s one of the Amazon services I have some experience in and I still get recruiters contacting me for those jobs even though I don’t really emphasize that specialty.
My experience is from 7 years of working with AWS. First at a startup with a lot of complex ETL and used a lot of services. But the spend wasn’t that great.
My next 5 years was between working at AWS (Professional Services) and two years at a a third party consulting company (full time) mostly as an implementation lead.
Even though my specialty is “cloud native application development” and I avoid migrations like the plague, most of the money in cloud consulting are large companies deciding to move to the cloud because they decided that the redundancy, lower maintenance overhead, and other higher level services were worth it.
For instance, I was surprised how large the market was for Amazon Connect - Amazon’s hosted call centers. It’s one of the Amazon services I have some experience in and I still get recruiters contacting me for those jobs even though I don’t really emphasize that specialty.
My experience is from 7 years of working with AWS. First at a startup with a lot of complex ETL and used a lot of services. But the spend wasn’t that great.
My next 5 years was between working at AWS (Professional Services) and two years at a a third party consulting company (full time) mostly as an implementation lead.
Even though my specialty is “cloud native application development” and I avoid migrations like the plague, most of the money in cloud consulting are large companies deciding to move to the cloud because they decided that the redundancy, lower maintenance overhead, and other higher level services were worth it.