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  "I can handle basic Linux devops. But AWS is not Linux
  devops. AWS has become its own specialty. With over 70
  services offered, only a full-time AWS specialist can
  properly understand how to build something in AWS."

Truer words were never spoken.

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Meh? AWS offers 70+ services, but you don't even need to understand S3 to deploy on AWS the way you would on Rackspace. The number of services on AWS seems likely an extremely weak argument against it.

That's true as long as you ignore the fact that your server's IP address might change when you restart it. Once you understand that, you realize that you have to rethink how you're using AWS, and that it's quite different than using Rackspace. So you get sucked into the complexity, and start thinking about availability zones, auto-scaling... it's a slippery slope into devops hell.

You need to know what an elastic IP address is. You do not need to know about Redshift, or, for that matter, auto-scaling.

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