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2nd Mar
Quick guide for Beginners.

Most of these AWS Certifications are for people with experience in the industry. No gatekeeping here from me. Just proper advice.

As a Beginner

Define exactly what job role you want. Research how to make a plan to get to that role eventually (it might take years but you need a plan)

Study > AWS Cloud Practitioner and either Solutions Architect Associate or SysOps Administrator
STOP do not aim to do anymore certifications. You can not be a Solutions Architect without at least 4 to 5 years experience or maybe even more depending on the individual. As a beginner get it out of your mind that these AWS Certificates will get you a high paid job. Exteremely unlikely as a beginner.

You can definitely get jobs working with AWS management that don't require coding. I know of some people that do just that. However if you have decided to be a Cloud Engineer/DevOps/SysOps whatever you want to call it. Use this guide and do not be scared, it is a journey, stay on target and follow the guide.

learntocloud.guide/

This started yesterday. Get on the Beginner track and start asap. There's a Discord group. If you get stuck try your best to figure it out. Use the Discord when you need help. There are Beginner and Intermediate tracks

cozycloudcrew.com/

As you learn, document your learning. Document your thought process and show your problem solving analytical skills. Eventually these blogs that you write will form part of your personal portfolio website.

Many jobs now especially from corporations use ATS (Applicant Tracking Software) because the competition is large, very large. Don't worry many people want a free meal and those people haven't researched, haven't done their homework and also think doing an AWS Cert is all they need. You just need to be better than them. So ATS means your CV needs to be ATS proof. So you're going to have to work on your CV a lot and research how best to setup your CV.

Summary:

As a Beginner AWS Certs do little to help you. Stick with max of an Associate level AWS cert and just do one.
Get all the fundamentals learnt and practised.
Write about your learning, how you troubleshooted problems. Make a blog. Keep notes on Obsidian or Notion.
Create a personal portfolio.
Embrace the suck - The suck will happen many many times and it isn't a good suck. It is a dopamine crushing suck. This is too difficult. I don't get it, I can't do this! It is too much to learn! All that stuff and why doesn't it work?

Bonus: If you're getting in to programming for Cloud then I recommend Terraform. I also recommend learn Go with Tests (learning to program using Golang). If you complete Go with Tests you have a super power quii.gitbook.io/lea…ts/

Also here's some motivation for you >

techuk.org/res…tml

sifted.eu/art…ull

The UK in investing in IT heavily. There won't be enough people to do all the jobs. So you will see Internships. Apprenticeships. Salary based training all coming up. Start now do not delay if you want it don't give up, never give up.

Everyone was a beginner once. The thing that moves you on from being a beginner is not giving up and working hard. So I hope you've got over the Do AWS Cert - Get job mentality and are ready to make that plan and work hard! Go for it.
2nd Mar
Unfortunately, the reality is that many large corporations are just getting cheaper resources from abroad via the governments skill's visas. It's now increasingly difficult to stay employed. I have worked in IT for over 25 years and know lots of people personally who are now surplus to requirements. Just something to bare in mind.

How do these courses compare to Pluralsight, CloudGuru or even the Amazon Partner courses? (edited)
2nd Mar
The simple answer is make sure you're one of the best. A well trained engineer will stay employed.

Pluralsight and CloudGuru I would avoid. There's better resources

For AWS training the following are recognised as excellent resources

AWS Skillbuilder (Amazon's own training resource, Cloud Practitioner cert training is free, rest you need to subscribe)
Neal Davis - Udemy - Designed to get you to pass the certification and no more
Stephen Maarek - Udemy - Designed to get you to pass the certification and no more
Adrian Cantrill - The AWS training boss. Designed to give you real world knowledge and get you to pass the certifications
Tutorials Dojo (Jon Bonso) - Use Tutorials Dojo website not Udemy for this. Practice exams, so training on the exam questions. Only get the exam training, the video training is poor. For exam questions training this is the best resource.

Avoid
Examtopics and similar sites. Exam dumps, often wrong. People who have only used this resource have posted they failed exams just using this.

Summary :

1. Choose either Neal Davis or Stephen Maarek course for the certification you are studying
2. Always choose Adrian Cantrill in addition to one of the two above
3. Always use Tutorials Dojo.
4. Optionally also use AWS Skillbuilder. Cloud Quest game is decent for giving you real world tasks to complete. Cloud Quest Cloud Practitioner is FREE. The Cloud Quest for the rest of the certs needs AWS Skillbuilder subscription. If you already have Cloud Practitioner, you can use Cloud Quest Cloud Practitioner 12 tasks to re-certify yourself.
2nd Mar
Thanks OP, thanks for sharing.
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3rd Mar
Welcome
4th Mar
Be careful with some of these courses, make sure you keep an eye on any resources you spin up in the cloud and tear them down once finished (not as easy as it sounds, aws is a nightmare). Good luck
5th Mar
AWS has a bad user interface there is no doubt about. However for Free Tier users here's some tips >

A Free Tier account is valid for 12 months after that if you don't close the account then you pay a fee per month. There are free resources you can use on the Free Tier and allocated amounts of hours and operations. EC2 for example has 750 hours free per month. BUT this is shared between all instances you spin up. So if you have one EC2 no problem leave it on 24/7 for a month you're good. If you have 2 or more they share the 750 hours.

Here's the AWS Free Tier details. Scroll down to see the free resource limits for EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SNS etc. aws.amazon.com/fre…all

1. Tip one - URGENT with immediate effect > Set up MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) on your Root account. Then get into the habit of logging in with an IAM User you created. Stop logging in with root! Use root to setup first IAM user and also use it when you need to close your account. Give yourself access to admin rights and billing on that IAM user. MFA first, if someone else gets in your account, can't cry to Amazon that you didn't secure your account. Also when you need CLI (Command Line Interface) access, create an Access key using an IAM user and not the root account.

2. Tip two - Once secured and NOT logging in using the root account and ONLY logging in and using the IAM user account. Go to Budgets and setup a budget. This will warn you when you are predicted to go over the spend for the month. Do it, don't forget!

3. Many AWS/Amazon services are available in different regions. For example you might setup an EC2 instance in London one day, then the next forget about it and set up another in North Virginia. EC2 has a Global view, use it to see an overview of the instances you have running in ALL regions!
4. Use Billing and Cost Management. On the left hand menu is Free Tier. Use it to show predicted Free Tier usage and if you're close to any limits. Also use it to analyse any costs you might have incurred and why they happened.

5. Learn how to use Resource Explorer. You can search for resources, so for example let's say you spun up some RDS instances. You can search for RDS and it'll show them to you. Same for S3, EC2 whatever, you can search for it here.

6. If you use Cloud Formation to organise automation creation of infrastructure. Make sure you delete the Stack in Cloud Formation. And double check resources aren't being still being used.

7. If you follow a tutorial say Wild Rydes > aws.amazon.com/get…to/ Make sure you follow the cleanup section and clean up the resources after you finish the tutorial.

8. Remember FAFO, I can't define this acronym here but if you don't know what it is Google it. FAFO means know what you're doing and if you don't, don't do it until you do understand. There are other ways to discover resource allocation in AWS but I'm deliberately keeping it beginner friendly.

Lastly have to say it again > If you don't understand what you're doing, don't do it. Read the tips above. They aren't a guarantee you won't get charged. I got charged on the Free Tier, it happens but it was $5 or so. Nothing big. However if you FAFO then you could be looking at $100s or $1000s and then you have to grovel to Amazon that you're a n00b and get a refund, pretty please.

No FAFO OK! Got it? Good (edited)