Throw away this type of thinking and start renewing your mind. Understand that the cloud is as much about thinking different as is it is about items on a resume or hosts in a datacenter.
Take a project you've done and start figuring out what it would take to do it at 100x the traffic. Now figure out what it would take to make each of the instances stateless. Lastly, how can you make it work through network partitions, latency, and eventual consistency?
These are real problems people in the "cloud" are working with. Just being able to talk about these types of problems excitedly says a lot about where an engineer fits.
People say things like that right up until it comes time to pull the trigger on a hiring decision. Then it is "you don't have the kind of background we're looking for. Best of luck in your job search."
This is more about people who have the skills to build the cloud. Just being a user of those systems is much different, and should actually be fairly accessible to most developers. Just go start up a free personal account on AWS and set up a simple website. Voila you're using the cloud!
