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…