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On Cloud Partnerships
from a Microsoft RD, Google GDE & AWS Community Hero
As an independent Cloud Architect and Developer, I am often asked whether I work for Amazon, Google or Microsoft. The short answer is NO. However I am part of technical award membership programs at all three. This post details my path to these cloud partnerships.
Cloud Partnerships are awards — not employment.
Although I’ve developed close working relationships with all three companies, in actuality I work for each of my customers. Yet the practicality is that I use cloud services developed by these public cloud vendors to meet my customer’s needs. To that end, I consider myself a kind of ‘cloud translator’. To understand how I got here, consider the question below.
“The first cloud service YOU used in production was…?”
For me, this was AWS S3. Why? Data before code — my technical consulting began in the world of databases. So it was natural for me to add cloud-based redundant backup to on premise data for my customers. Also, I use multiple cloud buckets as my own personal backups. From the beginning, I’ve personally been “multi-cloud” — and I have NEVER lost any data because of this approach.
