I turned to my partner, said nothing and started playing Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas. Moment's pause, she laughed, "You got it!" I never thought I'd be fortunate enough to attend AWS's biggest annual conferences: Philadelphia's re:Inforce (which has since retired) & sunny Las Vegas's re:Invent, let alone so early in my career. That was thanks to AWS's All Builder's Welcome Grant, a scholarship programme that fully sponsors IT professionals in the first 5 years of their IT