All 12 AWS certifications explained — from Cloud Practitioner to Specialty. Difficulty ratings, exam costs, study time estimates, and the recommended order for every career path.
Entry-level certification covering cloud concepts, AWS services overview, security, architecture, pricing, and support. Recommended starting point for everyone — no prerequisites.
The most popular AWS certification. Covers designing resilient, high-performing, secure, and cost-optimized architectures. Essential for architects, developers, and DevOps engineers.
Focused on developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications. Covers Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, CI/CD, and application security.
Operations-focused: monitoring, logging, remediation, security, networking, and cost optimization. Includes exam labs (hands-on practical component).
The most prestigious AWS certification. Complex multi-account architectures, migrations, cost optimization, and enterprise design. Long, scenario-heavy questions.
Advanced CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, logging, incident response, and security automation. Ideal for DevOps/SRE professionals.
Incident response, logging, monitoring, infrastructure security, identity & access management, data protection.
Data engineering, ML modeling, exploratory data analysis, ML implementation/operations with SageMaker.
Hybrid networking, VPC deep-dive, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, network security.
Data collection, storage, processing, analysis, visualization using Kinesis, Glue, Athena, Redshift, QuickSight.
Database design, migration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance across RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB.
Design, implementation, migration, and operation of SAP workloads on AWS.
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