I formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was required for every single deployment.
That’s not particularly surprising. I spent a lot of time on an army base in mid aughts as an undergrad for a similar reason, decommissioning an astrophysics project.
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I formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was required for every single deployment.
Yup. Not only do you have to be a US Citizen, but you also have to be on US soil. So if you're on vacation internationally? Can't make that change.
AWS takes that stuff very seriously.
Can you tell me what country I have to be in to cancel my services and stop being billed?
Iran
Suuuuure. Whoops and there goes a vpn tunnel with a residential endpoint.
That’s not particularly surprising. I spent a lot of time on an army base in mid aughts as an undergrad for a similar reason, decommissioning an astrophysics project.
I can only imagine turning off the lights and sending people home in those moments where you have a late night family emergency.
pretty much all of the times I was needed were scheduled, so there was rarely surprises.
Did this give you incredible leverage for performance reviews, raises, etc?
none at all; this task was just literally a "hit the button".