In this post, I will talk about my experience with AWS certification for Solution Architect Associate and how I prepared for it.
AWS certification allows the developer to confirm his qualification and skills in working with AWS services. And the preparation process itself provides additional experience in working with AWS services. But besides all of this, you also get knowledge about architectural patterns that can be applied anywhere else, how solutions are built in the cloud, their limitations and problems.
Documentation and videos on the AWS services pages are certainly not a bad start, but to prepare for the exam it would be very good to have experience in the cloud and system knowledge. But it is not necessary — you can catch up on online courses.
I personally started with “AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate 2020” from “A Cloud Guru”. I passed it on Udemy, but there are other platforms, including their own website.
The course was quite good. I liked the combination of theoretical materials and practical tasks where you could get your hands dirty. I had some professional experience using AWS, so I already knew and saw many things but the course easily fills in the blanks for services that I didn’t use.
