I spent many years learning how to do cloud architecture. Now I can briefly look at AWS documentation for new services out of the corner of my eye and know all I need to for the next 6 months.
Yet the other day I opened a book on Java, which I haven’t studied since college, and literally had no idea what in the world I was reading.
I’d hazard a guess that you’re not learning particularly efficiently if it took you years to learn this. In my opinion, any smart engineer could learn cloud architecture in a month or two if they’re studying two/three hours per day in their own time.
Yes it’s easy to get going in the cloud, but becoming an expert, like anything, is hard and take time + experience.
We're doing this at a massive scale, bigger than most production games. So I don't know why you're talking about massive scale game servers, we are literally doing this at massive scale.
What does that even mean? Serverless? Or just becoming an expert of AWS services?