Amazon AWS Certifications

Amazon certifications are recognized industry-wide as reliable and well-designed tech credentials. Amazon certifications validate the knowledge and skills of professionals in using the AWS platform. The certifications provide candidates access to a network of like-minded peers and AWS leaders. An Amazon certification proves a candidate's ability to run AWS operations, deployment guidance, and best practices throughout the life cycle of a project. This certification is ideal for professionals with experience in provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS and, who can identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS.

AWS certifications are divided into four major categories:

1. Foundational
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
2. Associate
• AWS Certified Developer 
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect 
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3. Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4. Specialty
• AWS Certified Security
• AWS Certified Data Analytics
• AWS Certified Machine Learning
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

The AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification is ideal for intermediate-level students who have the fundamental knowledge of Cloud computing. The certification exam validates a candidate's skills required in developing, deploying, and maintaining applications Server less ones on AWS. The certified AWS developer will be able to create a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS and implement AWS Security best practices using IAM, KMS, and MFA.

AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty Certification

AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty Certification validates a candidate's ability to create, protect, maintain, and design data analytics solutions. Data collection, storage and data management, processing, analysis and visualization, and security are the five core test domains covered by this path.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification validates a candidate's technical skills and expertise working with AWS. The certification focuses on concepts like core AWS services, like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), S3, and EC2. This certification is best suited for professionals starting a career in the field of cloud computing.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Certification

The AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty Certification validates the skills to design and deploy AWS, as part of a hybrid IT network architecture, to scale. Getting AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty certification demonstrates candidates' credibility and skills in working with cloud computing. 

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Certification

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator- Associate exam validates the skills and expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform and therefore validates a candidate's experience in provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS. The certification exam candidates are recommended to have at least one year of hands-on experience managing cloud applications on the AWS platform.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Foundational Certification

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Foundational certification exam validates a candidate's ability to describe the basic AWS Cloud architectural principles, AWS Cloud value proposition, key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases (for example, compute and analytics), and basic security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and shared security model. Candidates are recommended to have a basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform before taking this exam.