I've worked for 2 large-ish firms in the past 3 years
… I've worked for 2 large-ish firms in the past 3 years. One huge telco, one "medium" telco (still 100s of people). BOTH had a team just for AWS IAM administration. Only for that one thing, because that was company-wide (and was regularly demonstrated to be a single point of failure). And they had AWS administrator teams, yes teams, for every department (even HR had one, though in the medium telco all management had a shared team, but the networking and development departments still had their own AWS teams, who, btw, also did IAM. The company-wide IAM team maintained an AWS IAM and some solution they'd bought that also worked for their windows domain and ticketing system (I hate you IBM remedy), and eqiupment ordering portal and ...) AND there were "devops" positions on every development team, and on the network engineering team, and even a small one for the building "technics" team. …
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