AWS certification

Last month, I decided to get some IT certifications for the first time. I have always been sceptical of such certifications, but a few colleagues managed to convince me that some are worth it. The ones from AWS for example are reasonably priced and the exams require more than just rote memorization.

This blog post from A Cloud Guru helped me decide where to start. The following image in particular was very helpful:

Next, I followed their training on PluralSight, and one month later I am happy to report that I am now triple-certified!

Over the summer, I might give the Machine Learning Specialty a try as well.

Update 2024-03: it took a bit longer than anticipated, but I finally obtained the AWS MLS certificate. The example questions you can find online are quite hard and the answers not always as clear-cut as you would want them to be. This held me back from quickly doing the exam. However, in the end, the questions on the real exam were fairly straightforward. Anyone with a few years of machine learning experience should be able to handle them.