... why am I getting downvoted for offering direct experience as an AMZN engineer? Amazon InfoSec forbids PHP. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030330
Google also bans PHP but has official PHP client libraries for all its APIs.
Both companies care about having and maintaining PHP SDKs so long as their paying customers want to consume their products/APIs using PHP.
You can't use PHP internally at Amazon. Downvotes and ignoring facts do not suddenly make my factual comment "untrue".
Many AWS services use it as an interface language. Many AWS customers use PHP.
The AWS SDK in PHP helps generate web requests to Amazon's services, most written in Java.
That's literally fact. That's literally how it works.
Additional resource: See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030330
But if you take the initiative to open source a client library in PHP and it gets the attention of AWS it absolutely could result in an interview.
If you are interviewing and you whiteboard your solution in PHP they won't hold it against you. The language is less important than the concepts. Granted, if the only language you know is PHP that could be a risk in your career. I think that holds true for any developer, though.
Source: Used to work and interview at AWS