Cloud Engineers... don’t be scared of AI

In Today’s Cloudbites:

🤖 Cloud Engineers… don’t be scared of AI

🧭 The only 3 AI skills you need

☁️ Online Cloud & AI Events to Look Forward to

👀 PLUS: Chrome can now browse for you

Read time: 5 minutes

Hi friends, welcome back to Cloudbites

In this newsletter, we’ll talk about why AI feels overwhelming for cloud engineers and how to approach it without burning out.

I’ll break down the only 3 AI skills cloud engineers really need to stay competitive.

And we’ll explore Chrome’s new AI agent that can browse the web for you.

CLOUD COMPUTING ☁️

🤖 Cloud Engineers… don’t be scared of AI

If you’re a cloud engineer and sick and tired of AI, you’re not alone. 

There’s a serious case of “AI Fatigue” happening around us.

AI Fatigue is “the state of mental exhaustion, stress, and burnout caused by the unrelenting pace of AI advancements.”

People are sick and tired of seeing AI everywhere - AI ads, AI tools, and even AI-generated cat videos.

But we can’t escape it, because as a society, we’re growing more reliant on AI. Resisting it can put your tech career at serious risk.

As a Cloud Engineer or someone aspiring to break into tech, there are only 3 AI skills you absolutely need. 

1. Prompt Engineering for Infrastructure

2. Building & Deploying AI Workloads in the Cloud

3. AI-Assisted Debugging & Automation

🎥 Watch the full breakdown:

🎥 Check out my video on Cloud Engineers... Don’t Be Scared Of AI (just master these 3 skills), where I’ll explain how to build the 3 AI skills, and how you can apply them to your work.

🧭 The only 3 AI skills you need

Let’s break down what these skills look like in practice.

Skill #1: Prompt Engineering for Infrastructure.

Use AI to generate actual infrastructure code that you can deploy in production.

With AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Warp, or Claude, you can describe your requirements in plain English. And then, AI generates the entire Terraform configuration in under a minute.

Your job is just to review the code, set it up correctly, and make sure it’s following your company's compliance requirements. 

Skill #2: AI-Assisted Debugging & Automation

Cloud systems are complex. Logs are messy. And when something breaks at 2 AM, you're stuck digging through thousands of lines trying to find what went wrong.

With AI tools, you can feed those logs into Claude or use an AI-powered observability platform, and it'll parse through everything in seconds.

You can also use AI agents to automate repetitive work.

Skill #3: Building and Deploying AI Workloads on Cloud

Companies are using the cloud to run AI workloads, these workloads are different from traditional cloud apps.

AI infrastructure is expensive, and a single poorly optimised LLM can cost a company thousands a month. A chatbot that handles 100 requests per minute could suddenly hit 10,000 if something goes viral.

You’d need to find infrastructure that can auto-scale efficiently without blowing through your budget.

💡 My Advice:

If you’re feeling a bit of AI Fatigue, the best thing you can do is focus on these 3 core skills and ignore the rest of the noise.

Companies are desperate for people who can bridge the gap between Cloud & AI. If you can continue to upskill, you’ll be in a very strong position.

☁️ Online Cloud & AI Events to Look Forward to

#1 2026 Cloud Security Summit [Feb 20, 2026]

A virtual cloud security summit covering current attack patterns, vulnerabilities, and best practices to secure modern cloud environments.

Click here to register.

#2 Multi-Agent AI for Claim Processing & Fraud Detection [Feb 26, 2026]

A live demo on building multi-agent AI workflows for claims automation & fraud detection, with best-practice deployment options for cloud architects.

Click here to register.

#3 AI Impact Summit 2026 [Feb 19-20, 2026]

A major international summit, bringing together global researchers, innovators, policymakers, and industry leaders to discuss AI’s future impact, inclusive innovation, and practical implementations across sectors worldwide.

Click here to register.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) 🤖

👀 PLUS: Chrome can now browse for you

Google is rolling out new Gemini features inside, including a persistent Gemini sidebar and an agentic “auto-browse” mode for handling tasks across the web.

💡 Here’s what you should know:

• Gemini is moving into a persistent sidebar in Chrome, so you can ask questions about the page you’re on (or other open tabs) without switching tools.

• When you open multiple tabs from a single page, Chrome can treat them as a context group, which helps with comparing products and prices.

• The most ambitious feature is “auto-browse”, which can traverse websites on your behalf for tasks like shopping, finding coupons, and filling out forms.

• It asks for your intervention for sensitive actions like logging in or making the final purchase.

THAT’S A WRAP

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