AWS Certifications
This entry-level certification is the most widely recognized starting point in AWS.
What is AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner?
This service is primarily used for object storage.
Who is Amazon S3?
This service manages user access and permissions.
What is AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)?
This service automatically adjusts compute to maintain performance.
What is Amazon CloudFront?
This tool helps you estimate and forecast AWS costs.
What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?
This certification validates expertise in designing distributed systems.
What is AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate?
This is AWS's fully managed database service.
What is Amazon RDS?
This service encrypts and manages keys for AWS resources.
What is AWS KMS (Key Management Service)?
This is AWS's global content delivery network service.
What is Amazon CloudFront?
This service lets you set alarms when billing exceeds a threshold.
What is Amazon CloudWatch (Billing Alarms)?
This certification focuses on development and maintaining AWS-based applications.
What is AWS Certified Developer-Associate?
This serverless compute service only charges you for execution time.
What is AWS Lambda?
This service continually monitors accounts for compliance and best practices.
What is AWS Config?
This service lets you run a private, isolated network in AWS.
What is Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?
This tool provides detailed usage and cost breakdowns across accounts.
What is the AWS Cost Explorer?
This certification is the highest level "expert" certification for AWS architects.
What is the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional?
This service allows you to run containers at scale without managing servers.
What is AWS Fargate?
This service provides web application firewall protection.
What is AWS WAF?
This service provides real-time message queuing for decoupled systems.
What is SQS (Simple Queue Service)?
This feature lets you reserve compute capacity at a lower cost.
What are Reserved Instances?
This specialty certification validates advanced knowledge in machine learning.
What is the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty?
This service let's developers deploy and manage applications without provisioning infrastructure.
What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
This threat-detection service uses machine learning to find anomalies.
What is Amazon GuardDuty?
This event bus service powers event-driven architectures and serverless workflows.
What is Amazon EventBridge?
This pricing model lets you bid on unused EC2 capacity at a discount.
What are Spot Instances?