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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.

Lab Index

The following link back to Github, or browse the webpage versions using the menu.

Certification Journey

✅ 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 (SAA-C03) Associate
🤔 AWS Machine Learning Engineer (MLA-C01) Associate
🤔 AWS Solutions Architect (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
🤔 Developer Associate (AZ-204) Associate
🤔 Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Associate (Prereq for below)
🤔 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

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate

As I learn more about networking, I am also starting to wonder if the well-recognised CCNA 200-301 might be worthwhile. Yes it's not a developer's necessity, but understanding more about how applications talk to the outside world cannot hurt, especially as part of the Solution Architecture journey.

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