Infrastructure-as-Code

Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Heroku, Render, PlanetScale: open their region docs and you find AWS region codes. The platforms are thin layers over primitives you can learn directly. Deep AWS specialization — with real fluency in CDK and Terraform — is not narrowing. It is the thing that lets you use any of them, and leave any of them.

An architect who does not ship code has no feedback loop, and an architecture with no feedback loop is a guess with a diagram. Own a real piece of the build — the hard module, the infrastructure as code, the review queue — or accept that the team will route around you.