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Cloud Lab Chronicles 🌦

My goal here is to document my certification journey and the cloud labs I do to back up the learning. I'd like to give the labs a robotics and IOT flavour when it makes sense to do so.

I figured that keeping track of my journey here might help keep me accountable to myself. Thanks Leszek Ucinski for the idea.

Certification Journey - Cloud, ML and AI

✅ Passed ⌛ Booked 🤔 Maybe

Amazon AWS

I'm mainly concentrating on following the AWS ecosystem and the AWS Architecture Certification path.

Status Certification Level
✅ AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Fundamentals
✅ AWS AI Practitioner Beta (AI1-C01) Fundamentals
✅ AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Associate
🤔 AWS Machine Learning Engineer (MLA-C01) Associate
🤔 AWS Certified Developer (DVA-C02) Associate
🤔 AWS Certified Data Engineer (DEA-C01) Associate
🤔 AWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-302) Professional

Neil Davis reccommends doing all three of the Associate level certifications before the Architect Professional. That's the Architect, Developer, and Sysops Admin Associate exams.

Microsoft Azure

I am also interested in the Azure Certifications, in part because I currently work with .NET day to day. Also, Microsoft's investment in OpenAI has lead to tight integration to the Azure platform, whereas AWS emphasizes the versatility of its foundation models through services like Amazon Bedrock, and I think this difference means it's worth looking at both.

Status Certification Level
✅ Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Fundamentals
✅ Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) Fundamentals
✅ Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) Associate
⌛ Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100) Associate
🤔 Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Associate (Prereq for Arch Expert)
🤔 Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) Associate
🤔 Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Expert

Google Cloud

Down the line, studying for the Google Cloud Architect Professional could be revealing in understanding Google's approach in comparison to the other vendors.

Certification Level
Cloud Digital Leader Fundamentals
Cloud Engineer Associate
Cloud Architect Professional
Cloud Developer Professional
Cloud ML Engineer Professional

HuggingFace Courses

Including: - LLMs - MCPs - Agents - Deep Reinforcemant Learning - Diffusion - NLP - HuggingFace Courses

Kaggle

Short, ~4h each. Amongst others: - Intro to Deep Learning - GeoSpatial Analysis - ML Explainability

Misc

Deeplearning.ai / Coursera

Nvidia

Certification Level
Generative AI LLMs (NCA-GENL) Associate
Generative AI Multimodal (NCA-GENM) Associate
Building RAG Agents with LLMs
Disaster Risk Monitoring Using Satellite Imagery
Generative AI Explained
Building A Brain in 10 Minutes

$135

Robotics (Issac Sim)

Ubuntu or Windows 10/11 GeForce RTX 3070 -> 4080 -> Ada 6000 Container / Cloud Intallation

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-tfohnapk66dgs

Cloud deployment - https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/latest/index.html - https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-OV-27+V1 - https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-OV-28+V1 - https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-OV-29+V1 - https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-OV-30+V1 - https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-OV-31+V1 - https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-OV-32+V1

AWS Solutions Architect Resources

Well Architected Framework

PDFs for easy access for my old tablet :) - Overview - Operational Excellence - Security - Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Cost Optimization - Sustainability