This is the final post in a four-part series following 11 Amazon Web Services (AWS) security professionals through the real stories of how they got here and what the work actually looks like. For this last one, I wanted to end where almost every one of my conversations ended up on its own: the things people wish they’d known sooner.
This one is about hard-won perspective, the kind you only get from doing the uncomfortable thing and coming out the other side. It’s about growth that doesn’t always feel like growth while it’s happening, and the advice these folks would hand to the earlier versions of themselves.
If you’ve been with me since Part 1: I didn’t plan this, thank you for sticking around. I hope this last set of stories gives you something to carry into your own path.
