As a recent grad in Computer Science I recently ggot a job as a Deployment Enginneer.
My end game is to be a DevOps engineer. I am interested in cloud computing and would like to learn more with AWS.
That being said would getting an AWS certificate be worth it? If so which Associate ones would align with my goals. If not is there any other certificates (non AWS) but DevOps or cloud related that would be recommended?
I’ve got the devops associate and I would probably pass and instead just deploy a couple apps using terraform or cloudformation with some boto3 and put it in github. It could help land your first job in the devops space though if that’s a concern. In practice I find the certification path to be very AWS specific things and many companies will be avoiding the ultra managed services services for core apps as the lock in is quite high and there’s nearly-as-managed services which keep your app more portable.