Yeah our company has recently decided to go all cloud (we're always so late with this stuff, especially now that a moment back from cloud has already started emerging).

But for me it's totally ruining my job to be honest. I like technology because it enables me to make things. I don't want to become an aws or azure specialist and learn what tickboxes the overlords at Amazon and Microsoft allow me to click. Screw that. That's nothing to do with technical knowledge, it's just about being a corporate drone. In my particular case it's Microsoft. Another problem with this is that they know they own everything in our company now so they're starting to treat us as employees, giving us things to do. Like promoting their features inside our company. I mean, they're a vendor FFS. They should answer to us.

A lot of my colleagues are really motivated with this shit and doing all the certs. Many are even becoming Microsoft evangelists and get pissed if I criticise someone. I'm looking for other options in the company now where I can actually do something technical again.

I understand there might be no bare metal work left in this company but in that case I'll just want to do something else. I don't want to be some goon that links their entire career to using the products of one big tech company. And also I think Microsoft and Amazon are horrible companies to work with as a customer. So me as a techie I just don't want to work at that anymore. What will remain are a lot of yes men who know how to click boxes.

And yeah we're not even doing anything smart or taking advantage of what the cloud offers. We just lifted all the physical stuff to compute instances that run 24/7.