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After getting banned for 30 days maybe three or four times in a row because some mod keeps misinterpreting things I said (i.e. a quote sympathizing with Muslims they interpreted to be an attack on them), instead of arguing in this toxic where the kind of guy like Randal from Recess is king, I hit the books and got the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certificate.

You can do it guys. Self quarantine from the outside world, but do the same from wastes of time too. Udemy is full of high quality courses that can widen your skillset for really cheap prices.

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Th3Truth posted...

He says as he continues to post here

Yes, my last farewell to this squalid corner of the internet.

What exactly does that cert allow/qualify you to do?

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Th3Truth posted...

lol every time someone says that they always return. This site's too hard of a habit to kick. But one day the message boards will go the way of IMDB and we'll all be free.

True, but I mainly meant CE, not the rest of the site. I might post summat somewhere from time to time.

BathroomWater posted...

What exactly does that cert allow/qualify you to do?

Average AWS SA makes 100k plus in salary. It facilitates getting a higher salary or getting a job in the field without having a huge amount of prior experience. But in such cases you would need to show some initiative by learning other technologies and having at least a little bit of work, even if it's just some private projects, to show for yourself.

On its own it's not a guarantee of anything, but it can help you get your foot in many good doors, and that's often a hard step to overcome for many in today's world.

As for what the job is, basically it's related to knowledge on how best to deploy solutions on the cloud for companies. The aim is to utilize the endless amount of AWS services in a manner that is easy to maintain, effective, resilient, and cost efficient. You can think of it as something of a puzzle where there are endless strategies to meet your goals, but the end goal is optimization on many fronts.

A_A_Battery posted...

True, but I mainly meant CE, not the rest of the site. I might post summat somewhere from time to time.

Average AWS SA makes 100k plus in salary. It facilitates getting a higher salary or getting a job in the field without having a huge amount of prior experience. But in such cases you would need to show some initiative by learning other technologies and having at least a little bit of work, even if it's just some private projects, to show for yourself.

On its own it's not a guarantee of anything, but it can help you get your foot in many good doors, and that's often a hard step to overcome for many in today's world.

As for what the job is, basically it's related to knowledge on how best to deploy solutions on the cloud for companies. The aim is to utilize the endless amount of AWS services in a manner that is easy to maintain, effective, resilient, and cost efficient. You can think of it as something of a puzzle where there are endless strategies to meet your goals, but the end goal is optimization on many fronts.

Wow, and you were able to study for and attain this in just one/a few months (estimating the time frame from the OP)?

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BathroomWater posted...

Wow, and you were able to study for and attain this in just one/a few months (estimating the time frame from the OP)?

Yeah, it was hard work though. I work for 4-5 hours daily and dedicate 1-3 hours of study every day. It took me two months with no background knowledge on many of the subjects related to AWS. First month did not have a rigid schedule, second month I made sure to study at least an hour daily.

And really, if I can do it, anyone can.

can udemy teach me how to be a better poster

I couldn't even get a job as an Amazon smart home field tech despite having 5 years of cable tech experience, including experience installing the cable company's own home automation service.

Let us know if they end up hiring you for the position you're after though


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Pitlord_Special posted...

I couldn't even get a job as an Amazon smart home field tech despite having 5 years of cable tech experience, including experience installing the cable company's own home automation service.

Let us know if they end up hiring you for the position you're after though

I don't aim to work for Amazon though. AWS Architects help companies that use cloud services from Amazon. Amazon also requires big companies to have a certain number of certified practitioners hired if they want to form partnerships with Amazon.

Personally I want to find work with any company in Europe if possible, but I still want to learn about other technologies before job hunting properly. Docker is my next target. It's the next big thing and is exploding fast. It also has a lot of support on the cloud with many services dedicated to using and managing containers.

Also the way the cloud works is built on some principles that do not deviate too much. So if you have the AWS basics down, it's no huge leap to switch over to Google Cloud or Azure, the fundamentals are quite similar.