Your devs should not be managing deployments. Making deployable software and actually worrying about the deployment environment don't need particularly tight coordination. I'd also worry that you're overfitting your software to whatever third party deployment target you've selected.
I believe that "practice how you're going to play" to get devs into the habit of not using a crutch to treat deployments like they are their local machine. The time to anticipate failures is in the thinking time, not "throw it over the wall and we'll think later"