25 AWS Courses: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Practitioner, Professional, Security, Python Programming, Kubernetes, DevOps

IF you're a beginner, then you can do max 2 of these certs and STOP.

1. Certified Cloud Practitioner - Essential for beginners
2. Solutions Architect Associate - Enough in depth AWS knowledge for a beginner / intermediate level person to cope with.

Now STOP do not do anymore. There's no point.

Use learntocloud.guide/ to get a rough 6 month fundamentals plan.

BUT Certificates will get me a job right so should do as many as I can? Wrong none of these certificates will get you a job. They might help grab someone's attention until they realise you can't actually do the job because you have no experience and then you wasted your time doing lots of certs.

If you're a beginner you can do those two certs MAXIMUM. But you must have a plan and you must look to get a low paid help desk job as an entry into Cloud Engineering / DevOps. There are internships but you'll get 10-20 thousand, yes thousand people wanting to get in those internships. You literally have zero hope of getting a Cloud Engineering job just by doing these AWS Certificates. There could be exceptions but a beginner Cloud Engineer role doesn't really exist so there is no job for you they don't want you. So you need to work up through the Help Desk / IT Support Levels until you have a few years experience.

Cloud Engineering comes under the hateful umbrella nonsense term DevOps >

roadmap.sh/devops

I don't usually refer people to roadmap anymore as usually it scares the she height out of them and for good reason. DevOps / Cloud Engineering are NOT beginner roles. (edited)