I would like to dedicate this result to this amazing community. Guided by your advice, I studied using Stephan's Udemy course and practiced with Tutorials Dojo exams. It took me three months of preparation, and I only took the exam when I felt fully confident. That’s it—thank you all!

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Hey people,

Quick question, I have seen a bunch of folks getting AWS certifications, needed guidance on the developer certificate.

Does it boost your profile significantly?

I currently hold only the AWS AI practitioner, I am a software engineer and was wondering which one would be beneficial. Appreciate any responses and help.

I don't have the attention span to sit through videos unfortunately.

Hi everyone,

I recently passed the CLF-C02 exam and am transitioning into tech without a technical background. I’m considering pursuing the AWS AI/ML Specialty (AIF-C01) as my next step.

Could you guide me on whether this is a good path for someone in my situation? Also, what prerequisites or foundational knowledge should I focus on to prepare for this certification?

I’m motivated to learn and would greatly appreciate any advice, resources, or personal experiences. Thanks in advance!

I habe no experience with AWS so wondering if I should start with Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect?

Just wanted to see if SAA helped anyone get a role in AWS or Cloud in general.

Basically a dev job that asks you to be familiar with the cloud but 9 out of 10 times the cloud stuff is handled by devops. I am also an experienced developer.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for someone who has a subscription to the Zero to Mastery - AWS Certified Solutions Architect course by Amber Israelsen. I need help getting access to the course slides for reference.

If anyone has the course and would be willing to share the slides with me, I would really appreciate it!

Thank you so much in advance!

3 years ago (-1 day) I wrote about my experience with Advanced Networking Specialty exam. Today I managed to pass the newer version (ANS-C01) of this exam.

My experience was similar to the first certification. The exam is hard AF, going into verry specific details about networking related topics.

Learning Material I Used

For the preparation I've used Adrian Cantrill's and Stephane Maarek's courses.

Disclaimer: I'm aware of the recent political outburts from Adian Cantrill. In this post I only want to focus on his course material. If you don't agree with his views, don't buy his course and don't support him financially.

Also, if you are Adrian and you are reading this post, please don't take my criticism as personal attack. TLDR, your course is valuable, but we reached to the point that I requiers a serious update.

Putting this out of the way I strongly recommend Stephan Maarek's course. First and foremost, you can get it cheap, but other than this offers a lot of value for the money. The course is done together with Chetan Agrawal. Chetan Agrawal is great, he knows his stuff (he works at AWS btw) and he follows Stephane's teaching style, so the course is well structures and it was easy for me to follow and take notes. The course also contains a lot of updated information for ANS-C01 such as: TGW Appliance Mode and TGW AZ affinity, TGW Connect, CloudWAN, EKS networking, IPAM, etc.

Coming back to Adrian's course, 3 years ago I used the same course to pass the exam. Now I went through again, and is mostly the same as it was back then. Now, don't get me wrong, the content itself is good, but it seriously lack certain topics required for ANS-C01. The thing that I enumerated before (TGW Appliance Mode and TGW AZ affinity, TGW Connect, CloudWAN, EKS networking, IPAM) are all missing from Adrian's course. Adminttedly, there is new containers section, but I feel like is not as relevant for this exam.

Certain things are outdated, such as a DX connections supports 4 transit VIFs, not only one. I pick this information specifically, because the exam buttf*cked me hard with this one. ALso, TGW support IPv6, which verry relevaant for the exam.

Ultimately, all of these can be simply fixed by having an update for the course.

Exam Content

My question set from the exam contained the following topics in order:

• Transit Gateway (TGW): most of the questions were transit gateway related. I had also everything from AZ affinity, TGW Connect, TGW peering, TGW with DX (a lot), route propagation, etc.
• Direct Connect (DX): this is obvious, know your BGP and routing stuff here. I had some strange HA related questions and also LAG. Important: a DX connections supports 4 Transit VIFs not just only 1.
• Site-to-Site VPN: again, something to expect. I had questions related to security, ECMP, IPv6 and the whole setup procedure. Make sore you have some practice with this.
• Route 53: again, something to expect. I had a lot of questions for R53 endpoints and hybrid DNS. Make sure you practice this one as well (both courses from above have hands-ones).
• Everything VPC related: CIDR range expansions, peering, gateway and interfacne endpoints, etc.
• Load Balancers: I had way to many questions related to ELB, some of theme being really pedantic (such as difference between LB enabled cross-zone load balancing and target group enabled cross-zone load balancing)
• Not much else to be honest. I had few quiestions related to Global Accelerated, CloudFront, general security (SG, NACLs, Network Firewall, WAF), 1 containers related questions, and that's it.

Conclusion

All and all, I think it was more challenging then expected. At certain points I was annoyed with the quesiton and/or with the possible answers. But ultimately, I managed to pass, and this is what it matters.

If you are interested about my notes, they can be found here: https://github.com/Ernyoke/certified-aws-advanced-networking-specialty

Thank you for reading!

I am right now a software developer (Java/Python) and have very little knowledge about cloud "stuff". I want to take the next step in my career, salary wise, and want to move towards cloud.

AWS seems to be the cloud to master, but I feel overwhelmed of where to start. We have pluralsight as a learning tool at my workplace and I want to utilize it.

Pluralsight is not that user friendly, it just shows a thousand different courses. Anyone that has a good recommendation of where to start and what certificates to go after?

Thanks!

(Recommendations outside of pluralsight is of course welcome as well)

So I'll keep it short.

I SUFFERED trying to find a devops job having some experience in the past with programming, but not being a devops per se - had 4 months of devops adjacent job at best on it, rest was fullstack cluster of things. Desperate, I bought a course on acloudguru that was recommended by my friend that is a senior dev (not sure what title, but I know cloud related) and after completing it I wrote on my skills page:

AWS - Solutions Architect (SAA-C03) knowledge at the associate level.

I explained during an interview, I didn't have the $ to pay for the cert yet as they called me in sooner than I expected- they totally understood that - and when asked about experience and how I studied, I said I used that platform. They made me tell how it worked, and then said "Yeah, we use that too". They basically skipped the AWS questioning part after that proceeding to ask about Terraform and other stuff I listed on my CV. It's one of the biggest companies in EU so I am super excited.

Don't give up y'all. Tips for newbies - LIST EVERYTHING you did. 3 other things on my CV that I thought were useless were read out to me and asked about!

Thank you all for tips.

Why am I not convinced

Hi all. This is more of a feedback request post. Those that passed the solution architecture associate exam from AWS. How did it help your career?

• Were you able to find a job as an architect after?
• any salary bump?
• anything else?

Im looking to pass mine at the end of this month after passing the CCP 2 weeks ago.

Thanks for all feedbacks

I wanted to share that aws is offering a free Retake exam if you fail your first attempt using this code: AWSRetake2025
It's valid for a limited time

I'm a recent graduate with no prior full-time experience. I’m considering pursuing the AWS CCP.
Is it worth investing the time and effort as a fresher?
Would it improve my chances of getting callbacks for full-time jobs?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Has anyone done the AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty MLS-CO1 2024 course on Udemy? Would you consider it a good resource to prepare for the exam?

I just got a couple hours ago the results after taking the exam this morning(around 8 hours later)

I had to renew my associate which was expiring today and I decided to go for the professional. Been working quite extensively with AWS for the past 5 years so the experience helped a lot but I also watched Cantrills SAP-C02 course and did the tutorials dojo practice exams. For some services I hadn't worked with(Storage Gateway,R53 resolvers, DX) I also watched deep dives on YouTube which helped tons.

All in all wasn't a bad experience but trying to catch up in only a month and working full time is not something I can recommend

A company wants to set up a website to host a gallery of daily timelapse photos of a construction project. It will be a static website with no active backend. They expect no more than 1,000 monthly active users.

What is the most cost-effective way to host such a website on AWS?

• S3 Static website hosting
• CloudFront distribution connected to an S3 bucket
• EC2 instance
• AWS Amplify

The answer with detailed explanations and more practice questions are here: https://bitesized.info/question?topic=aws&qid=Vh1y2SwYee2UTutKMV6rFc

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answers

I am sort of confused about the architecture of ELBs nodes. Is it more connected by its subnets or more so by its AZs ? From my understanding there are nodes in an AZs subnets and the subnets nodes come together to form what we know as the ELB. However, is the bigger picture here it connecting AZ to AZ or is its purpose more so to connect subnets ?

Initially scored 688 on the AWS CCP exam and failed. After reviewing all the material thoroughly and practicing extensively for the next two weeks, successfully passed the exam with a score of 881.

Hi, is there any way I can get coupons or vouchers for SAA, Please?

Received notification this morning heading to AWS ReInvent that I passed the AI Practitioner exam. Used [NEW] Ultimate AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 course by Stephane Maarek and his practice exams. I also have a Skill Builder account and did those courses. Honest, the practice exams are what actually prepared me. Trying to absorb this material without context in how the questions are going to be asked was harder than other material. The practice exams mimicked a lot of what was on the actual exam.

A healthcare provider is concerned about privacy when sharing AI models with research collaborators. What privacy-preserving techniques can they use?

A. Apply federated learning for collaborative model training. B. Share anonymized datasets with collaborators. C. Remove security restrictions for trusted partners. D. Use tokenization for sensitive fields in the data

1. I don't remember coming across federated learning in Stephane Maarek's course. I have been using only this material to prep for this exam. What else do you recommend I read to have required concept coverage for this aws aif-c01 exam?

2. Answer is a and b. Why can't answer be b and d? Won't d be less of an overhead compared to option a ? Why option "d" won't be a good fit to sol3 for this usecase?

TIA!!

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Please leave a review comment if you find the course useful.

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I have worked in the PC/console Game Industry for 3 years as a 3D environment and technical Artist. I am very interested in joining the IT field, I am Learning networking, OS, and  AWS services. I have doubts about the education qualification requirements for the Cloud Support Associate Job role.
Does Amazon India consider Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) degree graduates personal?

Any insights you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Hi guys, I completed Cantrill's course for SAA, but I'm still scoring very low on the Design Resilient Architectures portion of the exam after doing some practice tests (21% only :c). Can you share some materials for studying this topic? They can be books, courses, videos, etc.

I'm doing the exam in the second week of January so I think I still have time. Thank you in advance!

Helloooo everyone,

Took the SAP C02 at the center

I failed at 679. This is my previous post : https://www.reddit.com/r/AWSCertifications/s/nvEYwrXJJq

Anyway the exams came out a lot of networking, sqs sns, ec2, a lot of HA, RTO RPO stuff.

Anyway I gonna try again! But I am retaking my associate level first then retry this (company is paying for my certs)

Goodluck yall!!!!

Is there any website or that offers a voucher on the exam ?