Role-specific cloud technology domains to consider as a career path

Within the cloud computing ecosystem, there are several domains that many CSAs end up specializing in. Data, AI, infrastructure, security, and applications are all areas of specialization in which a CSA can develop expertise. The reason is that the cloud has become vast with service offerings and different environments to provision workloads to. It has become exceedingly difficult to maintain an elevated level of expertise in all aspects of cloud computing.

A CSA focused on data brings expertise in the storage, processing, and security of data to the cloud. Storage can include something as simple as object storage to complex data storage systems such as graph or schema-less repositories. Processing includes data retrieval, transformation, summarization, and analytical opportunities in a secure, reliable way. When considering industries such as healthcare or financial services, security becomes very important when...