I think there's a lot of projects within Amazon that get extra marks for dogfooding AWS and for providing materials / whitepapers for use cases of various AWS services.

I've done some AWS training, especially the introductory ones are intended to get you to use as many different services as possible. I'm sure Amazon's internal training is just that.

> I've done some AWS training, especially the introductory ones are intended to get you to use as many different services as possible

That sounds like an obvious good thing right? The training isn't supposed to teach you how to solve problems, its supposed to teach you how to use a particular set of tools.

Ish? If we are talking about "hammer training," then I can see the argument. Teach me about the different hammers and why I would pay attention to the weight and such.

But all too often, the training picks something like "build a clubhouse." And in that, I would expect legit solutions based on specifications of a clubhouse that you are wanting to build.

Language advocates fall hard on this. They will "build a TODO application" to show off part of the language. But end up with an application that can't do what folks would want a TODO application to actually do. It is very frustrating.