Sat and passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, yeah!

Thinking ahead to my Masters project, I set out on a journey to ramp up some cloud skills, starting with the biggest provider of them all, AWS. I wanted to better understand their huge service portfolio, so when the times comes to architect and build cloud solutions I could make well-informed decisions. I’m super happy to share the outcome of this prep is AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.

Beyond “*standard**” stuff like auto-scaling & load balancing compute resources, some other services really stood out for me. AWS Lambda for FaaS (Functions as a Service) serverless, stateless compute. AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure as code, for reliable, repeatable and self-documenting resource provisioning. AWS API Gateway to publish and log API calls. AWS SQS allowing those decoupled microservices to communicate with each other.

All the learning resources (online course, whitepapers) studied for the certification exam are free, here you go!

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition)
Overview Of Amazon Web Services
Architecting For The Cloud
How AWS Pricing Works
Compare AWS Support Plans