CSCareerQuestions

987 readers

2 users here now

A community to ask questions about the tech industry!

Rules/Guidelines

Follow the programming.dev site rules
Please only post questions here, not articles to avoid the discussion being about the article instead of the question

Related Communities

[email protected] - a general programming community
[email protected] - general question community
[email protected] - for questions targeted towards experienced developers

Credits

Icon base by Skoll under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

ericjmorey

odium

Would an AWS certificate be worth my time? (self.cs_career_questions)

submitted 1 year ago by chrischryse to c/cs_career_questions

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As a recent grad in Computer Science I recently ggot a job as a Deployment Enginneer.

My end game is to be a DevOps engineer. I am interested in cloud computing and would like to learn more with AWS.

That being said would getting an AWS certificate be worth it? If so which Associate ones would align with my goals. If not is there any other certificates (non AWS) but DevOps or cloud related that would be recommended?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an AWS DevOps Pro cert. The test very much focuses on DevOps using AWS services. If you plan on going DevOps in AWS it is certainly worthwhile in lieu of experience.

However, they are not easy certs and you have to renew every 3 years. Dip your toes in the practitioner cert for a basic understanding of AWS services, the Developer cert to have an idea of how AWS connects services together for development purposes, and the DevOps pro for solutions architecting for DevOps in AWS.

For something less AWS-centric, look into getting Hashicorp Terraform certifications. Lots of IaC uses Terraform and that's a cloud-agnostic tool you should definitely highlight as a skill set if you plan on doing DevOps.

[–] chrischryse 2 points 1 year ago

Oh nice I didn’t know terraform did certs