How does AWS synergize with a DevOps culture?

As you saw earlier in this chapter, having a DevOps culture is about rethinking how engineering teams work together, by breaking the development and operations silos and bringing a new set of tools, in order to implement the best practices. AWS helps to accomplish this in many different ways. For some developers, the world of operations can be scary and confusing, but if you want better cooperation between engineers, it is important to expose every aspect of running a service to the entire engineering organization.

As an operations engineer, you can't have a gatekeeper mentality towards developers. Instead, it's better to make them comfortable by accessing production and working on the different ...

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