There are a lot of religious followers of the one true AWS way of thinking. I dared bitch too loudly about SES delivery policy once and said to look elsewhere and earned the ire of the architectural elite.

This is insane because I'm certified too but a non believer, a concept which does not compute for a lot of people.

You don’t believe in AWS? Or not in SES, because I feel like they still win in general ‘want to recommend’.

I don't believe in anything past 100% portable IaaS platforms. Within those bounds, careful application of AWS is fine.