How To Become An AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate Edition)
A certification from Amazon Web Services is a great way to expand your career options. In Q2 of 2020, AWS holds the largest highest market share of cloud infrastructure service providers at 33%, followed by Azure (18%) and Google Cloud (9%)1.
With more organisations looking to migrate and build their infrastructure on the cloud, now is a good time to learn about cloud ecosystems take advantage of these opportunities.
Over the last 3 months, I’ve been extending and formalising my knowledge of the Amazon ecosystem, while hoping to find work building/managing data-driven SaaS products.
Becoming an Associate Certified Solution Architect felt like an important milestone along that journey, as it quantifies your knowledge of Amazon’s most popular cloud services.
Here are 3 steps to getting certified, based on my own experience.
Take Stock Of Yourself
This is arguably the most important step — figure out why you want to get certified.
The reason to any certification is to demonstrate that you have a certain standard of knowledge on a topic. The AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate) is supposed to show you can develop secure, scalable and available solutions for…
