Full disclosure - i create AWS Courses over at learn.cantrill.io - just want to disclose that before answer.
AWS Have a few tiers of certs
- Practitioner
- Associate
- Professional
- Speciality
My consistent advice is to ignore the practitioner.. even as a newbie. Yes its low level, but in my experience has almost 0 value to employer. Even for you personally .. its so base level, that the knowledge you gain will be next to useless.
I always suggest to people (even people with NO AWS or even NO IT knowledge) to start with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification.
Its an architecture cert .. which means you get exposure to a little bit of everything but its also REALLY well regarded by employers.
I would also suggest not focussing on the cert as an end goal, but thinking about it as a journey to get knowledge to be an associate level solutions architect .. and then pass the exam as a result.
This space is full of dodgy courses which aims to just scrape you through the exam, but the result will be you wont have real, useful skills at the end.
I don’t want this to appear to be a sales pitch, thats not me at all - I just want to help people. But i make this course AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02)
What makes this course special :-
- Its designed for ANYONE .. even IT/AWS newcomers .. and it starts from the basics.
- Its a one time fee, truly work at your own pace
- its well produced… not cheap ‘slides and bullets’ like other courses
- it has a LOT of practical work, to give you experience of AWS.
- Its actually allowed people to get jobs because of the practical components (i know a lot of people say this… but i have a growing list!!)
- And while I don’t see this as my primary aim … it has a (as far as i know) 100% pass rate.
In addition, if you decide to go this route … join a community too… something like A Slack for people studying tech
Hope that helps.. thats what i would do if i were at the start of my journey anyway.
/Adrian