> but I'd rather they were writing code instead of mucking around looking for some magic AWS solution to solve some specific use case.
Really? To my mind, code is a last resort from a business perspective: I’d much rather developers use AWS features when available.
> from a business perspective
This is true that from business perspective if there was a way to completely cut off engineers and replace them with low-code / saas offerings -> we all would be out of the job next week.
Fortunately for us engineering is quite complicated.
I have almost the exact opposite problem with some of my team, where they want to spend a lot more time on the Operational side. This is a mixed blessing - they'll learn the depths of various AWS things that are painfully boring to me - but I'd rather they were writing code instead of mucking around looking for some magic AWS solution to solve some specific use case.