AWS Course

It was at one of the retreats at Jeff Bezos’ house where one of the exercises conducted by the executive team made them realise that they were pretty good at running infrastructure services like compute, storage and database, hence they realised providing infrastructure services to developers was an additional business they could build. Amazon web services is a cloud computing platform which offers tools such as compute power, database storage and content delivery services. AWS was publicly launched on march 19 2006, the developer-friendly services brought in several enterprises such as Dropbox, Netflix and Reddit.

For any budding techie, undergoing an AWS Course will give a jumpstart to his/her career, as in today’s era the majority of the organisations thrive due to the usage of cloud computing. Few of the benefits of AWS reaped by organizations are mentioned below:

• Comprehensive
• Cost effective
• Adaptable
• Security
• Improved productivity
• Innovation
• Global leader

Few of the benefits of AWS reaped by the certificate holders are the following: -

• Helps to demonstrate technical expertise and advance their career.
• Helps to verify technical understanding and skills
• Gain access to AWS LinkedIn community
• Gather latest knowledge about the domain
• Leverage AWS shared security responsibility model.

The different types of AWS certifications and its prerequisites are mentioned below:

• AWS cloud practitioner – helps to gain and validate the knowledge about different types of cloud technologies.

Prerequisite – Minimum six months of general AWS cloud experience in any role.

• AWS certified solutions architect – Associate – helps to validate the ability to demonstrate knowledge of creation and implementation of application.

Prerequisite – Knowledge and some experience in designing distributed application

• AWS Developer – Associate – helps to develop and maintain AWS based applications

Prerequisites – 1+ experience handling AWS

• AWS sysops administrator – Associate – certification exam which focuses entirely on system administrator, both technical and conceptual understanding of operational aspect of AWS required.

Prerequisites – experience as a linux or windows administrator along with technical and conceptual understanding of operational aspect of AWS.

• AWS solution architect – Professional – this is a certification for someone who needs to evaluate an organisation’s demand and provide suggestions to implement applications on AWS.

Prerequisites – at least 2 years of experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS

• AWS certified DevOps engineer – Professional – operating, managing and build on AWS platform.

Prerequisites – 5+ years of work experience

• AWS certified Big data – Speciality –best for those with prior experience in data analytics and usage of different types of AWS for designing big data solutions.

Prerequisites – 2+ work experience in AWS

• AWS certified advanced networking – Speciality – validate the skills with performing complex networking tasks on AWS

Prerequisites – a background in architecting and implementing network solutions

• AWS certified security – Speciality – focuses on the security fundamentals and covers topics like encryption, access management, monitoring etc

Prerequisites – 2+ years’ experience sourcing AWS workloads and 5+ years of designing and implementing security solutions.

Hence, we can clearly understand how important Cloud Computing and AWS is in the upcoming generations.