Excellent write up. I thoroughly enjoyed your piece — and might have to ‘borrow’ a bit of yours….
A couple of years ago I had written a paper for a guy who used to work for MIT and he contacted me to ask “why was it so hard to learn AWS” and earlier this year, I wrote a follow-on paper (Part II).
Check it out when you get a chance to see what you think. I’m leaving a link but dropping the (dot com) from the end of the link so it won’t get killed off here: patrick ‘dot’ wordpress ‘dot’ _ _ _ and look for the papers titled “I Was Asked Why Is So Hard to Learn AWS”