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When I am managing very large cloud projects, I still have to deal with the client’s different departments priorities, fiefdoms, dealing with the operations side wanting everything locked down and the developers wanting the freedom to do what they want. It’s part of dealing with any large organization.

I got an offer to be a “staff architect” at the company that I acquired the startup I worked for before going to AWS. I would have been responsible for strategy across all of their acquisitions.

While the technical requirements didn’t worry me. I had never seen how a large product company worked at that level and didn’t have confidence I could pull it off from an organizational level. Before going to AWS I worked at small companies.

I did know the expectations in consulting. But in all large organizations you have to deal with that. It’s the nature of the beast.