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How to write a resume for an AWS Cloud Job in 2022

Ankit Dubey — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:31:37 +0000

How do you write a resume that will increase your chances of landing a cloud role?

If you're applying to a job in the Cloud Computing industry, it is important for you to write a strong resume to showcase your skills and experiences.

so how do you write a resume that will get you hired into a cloud role there's already tons of articles out there that offer free
resume advice but when it comes to applying specifically to a technical role in the cloud computing industry whether that be a solutions architect role or a cloud engineer role there are certain things to keep in mind to really help your resume stand out.

in this article i'll be mapping out a step-by-step guide on how you can build a resume that will help you increase your chances of
landing a job in the cloud make sure you stay until the end of this article because i'll be sharing the top resume mistakes that i've seen people make when applying to a technical cloud role.

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so when it comes to any resume employers typically look for these three things first of all does your resume align with the job requirements second of all does your resume tell a coherent story and thirdly is your resume formatted in a way that's easy to scan through now let's talk about these points in more detail and dive into some actionable steps that you can take before applying to a technical cloud role.

a recruiter's number one goal when looking at your resume is to figure out whether you're a well-suited candidate for the role the skills and qualifications required really varies depending on the job you're applying for which means you must tailor your resume
based on the job description.

for example if you're applying to an aws internship the level of experience required on your resume is a lot less compared to if you're applying for a senior cloud architect role the first thing to do is analyze the job description scan for keywords and highlight the skills you have next put in the most relevant experiences onto your resume make sure you include the company role title and how long you are there for,

now the secret here is to take the keywords from the job description and integrate it into your experiences because according to a study published recently recruiters only spend
an average of 6.25 seconds looking through your resume so by clearly showing them that your skills match up with the job description they're much more likely to progress you to the
interview stage.

now a common question i get asked is what if i don't have any experience right now and what if the skills listed don't match up with the skills that i have there are two potential reasons for this reason number one you're applying to a job that is an entry level and requires specific industry experience in this case i recommend looking at more beginner-friendly roles for example jobs
that have associate graduate or intern.

in the title potential reason number two is that it's too early for you to be applying to cloud roles although i would recommend applying to jobs even if you're at the start of your cloud learning journey it might be more worthwhile for you to firstly focus on building your cloud skills and knowledge.

this could be through studying for any of your certifications or working on cloud projects okay so now that your resume aligns with the job requirements how do you make sure that this resume is able to tell a coherent story a resume that tells a story is much more engaging to the recruiter and it gives them an opportunity to connect with you before the interview actually happens every story has a beginning middle and end so don't be afraid to show recruiters where your journey started and what you're looking to achieve did you study in university or did you go straight to the
workplace everyone's situation is different and it's all about how you're able to use your unique experiences and accomplishments to your advantage.

now how do you do this firstly order your experiences in a way that makes sense i included my education at the top followed by work experiences and then university experiences when it comes to
writing dot points about your previous roles make sure you don't just copy and paste the job description of what you did instead you want to be highlighting your achievements and talk about the
skills you learned.

a resume that tells a story will help spark the curiosity of the recruiter to find out more about you so make sure you spend some time reflecting on your previous experiences and thinking about how they all relate to each other.

okay so this is a pretty straightforward one but also one that people don't really tend to take very seriously all you have to do is make sure you keep your resume to one page make sure that it's formatted correctly with no typos and grammatical errors it would also be helpful for you to get a family member or friend to help read through your resume to see if there's any small errors because sometimes these areas are pretty harmless.

but other times for example if you write the wrong phone number or email address it makes it impossible for the recruiter to get back
to you okay so before i share the top resume mistakes i've seen people make when applying to a technical cloud role i wanted to let you know about two things.

a lot of you have been reaching out asking for one-on-one career guidance so since the beginning of this year i've opened up some time in my calendar to do one-on-one mentoring course where i help
people land a job in the cloud industry.

now here are the top three resume mistakes i've seen the first mistake is making up job titles and faking your experience one example of this is if someone attended a cloud practitioner boot camp and got their aws cloud practitioner certification that doesn't automatically make them an aws cloud practitioner.

being an aws cloud practitioner actually isn't really a real role so you shouldn't be listing that under your work experiences you
should still include this certification onto your resume but make sure you put it under the skills and certification section the next mistake is attempting the one-size-fits-all approach this is
pretty much the opposite of tailoring your resume when you try to develop a generic resume to apply to all the jobs.

you're interested in you're showing employees you have experience in general but that doesn't show them you're necessarily a good fit for the job that they're hiring for the final resume mistake that i've seen people make which is something i also mentioned earlier is poor design and formatting i've seen resumes that are very cluttered and have no spaces in between the different sections making sure you have a clean looking layout is actually so important.

because you want the person to scan your resume to be focusing on your experiences. alright so this brings us to the end of this article thank you for reading and please give this article a like if you got something out of it if you'd like to read more articles like this make sure you have shared this articles with your friends.

Our Complete Review of Will an AWS Certification get me a Job in 2022?

Ankit Dubey — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:00:19 +0000

Is an AWS Certification enough to get you a job?

In this article, I explain why having AWS Certifications alone is not enough to get you a job - and what you need to do to ACTUALLY land a role in the Cloud Computing Industry

will an aws certification get me an idioms job now this is the question i've been asked over and over again ever since i started writing article on how to pass different adverse certifications if you google how to get a job in cloud computing it doesn't take
long for you to realize that every second person is recommending getting a certification but is an aws certification alone enough to get your job the short answer is no.

unfortunately an aws certification by itself will not guarantee your job at aws but there's some things you can do on top of that to help you maximize your chances of landing that job if you're new to this page welcome my name is Ankit and today i'll be explaining why getting an aws certification by itself won't get you a database job but also what you can do on top of that to help you get there before we get started please make sure you give
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if you'd like to see more articles. like this article , i am already written articles on different topics like how to land a job in AWS, Article on how to pass different adverse certifications and now aws certifications are a pretty big investment to set an exam you have to pay anywhere between 100 to 300 USD not to mention all the long hours needed to prepare for the exam.

that's why it definitely doesn't come as a surprise that the most frequently asked question is if i obtain an aws certification and put it on my resume will it get me the job that i want.

let's have a look at a typical associate solutions architect job at aws and work backwards from the job description if we take a look at the basic and preferred qualifications you can see that both soft skills and technical skills are required this means that
during the interviews you won't just be assessed on your technical skills they will also be asking questions to figure out how well you work in a team environment and more specifically if you apply to a job at aws they will also ask you questions based off of amazon's 16 leadership principles and this is the case with most jobs in the tech industry.

the interviews will never be 100 focused on assessing your technical capabilities unfortunately a nativist certification doesn't really help you build up your soft skills so this is something you have to get elsewhere but zooming into the technical skills you can see that one of the basic qualifications is to have knowledge in one or more of the following so you can see there's cloud architecture solutions architecture systems design software development and as a preferred qualification they mentioned that they'll like to see you have experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution in a college project or while working for a company and this is something where an aws certification won't directly help.

through studying for an adb certification the next step for you could be to implement a cloud project so as you can see from the basic and preferred qualification an aws certification does seem like a step in the right direction in helping you get started it really does provide a good starting point but at the end of the day an 80 certification is a multiple choice exam.

the good thing though about studying for adb certifications is you probably have to follow video courses and hands-on lab exercises to get that practical experience in order for you to pass that multiple choice exam and as a result the practice that you get from doing those hands-on exercises can really help push you forward in starting your own cloud project and the cloud project that you start is something that you can showcase to employers to really help you stand out so what i'm trying to say is an awf certification is a really really good starting point for you to
build up your foundations and understand aws services but having an aws certification by itself doesn't really show employers that you'll be able to work in the real world environment and actually help customers come up with a cloud solution.

so here comes the question what can i do on top of getting an aws certification to increase my chances of getting an aws job i'll be covering this topic in more detail in a later article so make sure you share to this article with your friends, to stay
updated but to give you an overview here are some ways to help you stand out and maximize your chances of getting a job.

in the cloud industry so the first one as i mentioned is cloud projects when you study for certifications you might have followed along with hands-on tutorials that get you to become more familiar with the aws console and adibus core services but i'd recommend taking this a step further to create your own cloud project with the help of aws documentation and existing projects on github if you want the project to be more relevant and useful for others you
could help your friends host their websites on aws or even offer your services on freelance websites like fiverr this will help you become more confident with your technical skills.

also showing companies you have hands-on experience with aws another way to stand out is by attending community meetups and networking events where you can meet others around you who are also interested in aws and the cloud industry this will help you stay motivated and you can also share job opportunities and resources with each other you can go onto meetup.com to search for these events or you can join our cloudbytes community which is a group i started to bring together.

my third and final tip is to prepare for interviews as soon as you can many people i speak to want to focus on getting aws certifications first and then practicing their interview skills
but getting better at interviews is definitely something that takes time so please make sure you do that alongside your certification study also keep in mind the point i mentioned earlier that interviews will be a mix of technical and non-technical questions.

so please don't forget to prepare for both all
right so this brings us to the end of this article thank you so much for reading and if you have any questions please drop them in the comments below.

How I passed 3 AWS Exams in 3 Months and 5 Study Strategies for this Exam

Ankit Dubey — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:51:30 +0000

Hey everyone! In this article, I discussed how to pass 3 AWS Exams in 3 Months. I share tips & tricks on how I prepared for my exams and what resources I used.👇

Please remember to like & share! 🙌 If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know in the comments below.

hey everyone Ankit here in this article I'm going to be breaking down how I pass through innovate certifications in three months i'll be talking about the steps I took, the resources i used, and the mindset that i adopted to keep pushing forward.

so as a bit of an introduction i'm a university student in Mumbai India and i currently participated at aws reskill program so the reason I decided to write this article is because i've been getting a lot of questions from my friends and students on linkedin who are currently studying or thinking of studying for certification exams.

they've been asking me questions like how did i prepare for these
certification exams and what did i use to study for it as
well as questions like how did i find time to dedicate to my cloud learning journey.

so hopefully in this article i'll be able to address some of these questions and let's get into it first it's about getting into the right mindset and knowing your why do you want to study for aws
certifications and what do you want to get out of it.

for some of you it might be your first time learning about cloud computing and you want to use certifications as a way to not only follow a structured learning pathway but also validate your knowledge for others these certifications might be useful in your current or future role.

so by studying for them you can build your skills and apply it to your job by knowing your why and setting an achievable goal you'll find it much easier to stay motivated during your cloud learning journey.

the next step is to study unfortunately there's no shortcut or easy way around this and even people with many years of it experience have to dedicate a few hours to study for each certification exam the good thing though is that there are so many resources out there that can help make your learning experience as
fun and engaging as possible the way i approached this was to first go through video courses and watch theory lectures.

once i understood the concepts at a high level i followed along with lab exercises that were offered by these video courses to gain hands-on experience so that i'm not just forcing myself to memorize stuff but actually being able to apply it.

after that i did practice questions and for the ones that i got wrong i'll read the written explanations and go back to the video courses to revise certain sections so what i recommend doing is going through a cycle of learning about certain services and concepts and then applying what you've learned by playing around with the database management console.

and finally trying out practice exams to see if you have any gaps in your knowledge so you might be wondering what resources did i use to study for the aws certification exams and to be honest at the start it was a bit of everything everyone had different materials that they really recommended and really vouched for and i wanted to figure out which one was the best for me and i recommend doing the same.

i've linked into the end of this article below the resources i found helpful but i recommend getting free trials of different courses and practice exams so that you can decide for yourself
what resources to use personally i spent most of my time going through video lectures taught by an instructor called stefan on
udemy and practice questions from a website called tutorials dojo.

before i end this video i wanted to leave you with some final tips to help you pass your anabes exams my first tip is to book your exams in advance so that you can work backwards from a specific
date and figure out.

how much time you need to dedicate every week to studying just remember that if you ever find yourself needing more time reschedule your exam at least 48 hours in advance because you won't be able to change the exam date and time for free after that the next thing i wanted to emphasize is that hands-on experience is a must it's definitely possible to pass the exam by doing tons of practice questions without even touching the aws management console but it's really easy for you to forget everything you've learned right.

after the exam if you don't bridge that gap between theory and actual hands-on work my third and final piece of advice is to
block out some non-negotiable time each week for your learning to pass three aws certifications in three months you don't have to study.

every single day and sacrifice time with family and friends try to work around your schedule and find free time slots where you can
really sit down and focus on the material.

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AWS Amazon Intern Experience (+ Advice for Interns)

Ankit Dubey — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:30:53 +0000

Hey everyone! 👋 In this article, I have written about her Amazon Intern experience and answered a few questions:

• What do interns do?
• How do teams work together?
• What challenges do interns face?

Please remember to like this article! 🙌 If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know in the comments below.

so Lucy said in her video given details about this topic.

she said "before joining amazon web services as an intern I remember spending hours watching a day the live videos on
youtube trying to picture what it would be like working in a large tech company

these videos got me excited and although I probably wasn't making the most out of my time watching everybody's morning routine and free work lunches it motivated me to stay resilient and not give up after every interview rejection.

there were a few things though that I wish these videos covered
I wanted to know more about
what interns get to work on, how teams communicate and solve problems together, and what challenges interns face during their short time in the company. "

if you're new here my name is Ankit and I write all about tech
career and student advice today I wanted to write a bit about lucy's experiences with amazon web services and answer these three questions so if you're interested in reading more articles regarding experiences comment below

let's continue;

she said " let's get into it it's nine o'clock in the morning now and at 10 o'clock I have a meeting with my manager and a few of the consulting interns to go through the different projects that we have over the summer and figure out which one we want to do

so we can do them either in pairs or in small groups or even individually and we can choose between quite a few technical and non-technical projects so I thought I'd take this time to talk a bit about what interns do in internships aside from everything you see in the typical day in the live videos you know apart from that coffee catch-up and virtual intern events.

I guess what you do as an intern varies from company to company and depends on the length of your internship so a month-long internship could look very different from a six month long
internship and for example when I was at Deloitte last summer my internship was for four weeks and this involved a lot of shadowing
getting to know the team and I wasn't specifically placed on a project to work on just because there wasn't enough time
for you to make much of an impact it was more about learning about the company learning about the team.

and see if you like the company and see if the company likes you, on the other hand, during my internship with AWS I was interning for six months in one team, and with that, I was able to take ownership of three projects.

and seeing the end to end was a really good experience because
especially with a longer internship you're not only able to be immersed in the company culture but you're able to make a real tangible impact on the team that you're assigned to as well and I think that that is super valuable as an intern especially when you get the chance to see what you like and you don't like in the company to see if that company is right for you so in terms of a typical day though it depends as well because um it comes down to what you want to gain out of the internship.

I think sometimes if you just want to kind of um like have fun and see how things go not set any goals kind of like do the bare minimum to get buyers and in turn, your day might look quite empty because if you just go to the required meetings and kind of like do what you're told to do um that would be fine as you would still be able to continue with your internship and learn a few things

but if you want to stand out as an intern and potentially land a full-time role after your internship I think it's really important for you to be able to set measurable goals and be proactive about your learning so that by the end of the internship when you reflect you can see that even though you were just an intern you
were able to contribute to the team that you're in and also be able to have like a graduate position at the end where you're able to come back to if you're interested in staying with the company.

so I guess the main takeaway is that no two internships are the same some of them you might be working on multiple projects some of them you might be doing more shadowing and more learning so it's really up to you to make the most out of every opportunity
that you're offered okay so it's 12 now and I'm gonna take a
bit of a break from using my standing desk after lunch, I'm gonna be sitting here and I typically try and alternate between using the two just to make sure that I'm not sitting at the same place um the entire day and getting a lot of back pain, okay so I just had lunch and now I wanted to talk a bit about how teams
communicate and collaborate.

so I guess it depends on the company and the team that you're in um and even with amazon as well in such a big company different teams have different ways of doing things and from my experience I think what I saw was quite common is having stand-ups, especially during a virtual setting having a daily stand-up or A weekly stand-up can help keep everyone on the team is accountable especially during interns with interns as well sometimes you might not understand half the things that are being discussed in the team stand-ups because you're working on your project.

but it's a really good way to see how everything fits in together in a company which is pretty cool and at amazon and quite a few different companies as well I think there's like really helpful
collaboration software so um in amazon we use amazon chime so there's like a video conferencing software for us to connect virtually um and in different companies, it might be zoom or google me things like that and there are also different ways of collaborating as well in terms of using shared drives collaboration folders and I guess another thing that we have and um different companies have different ways of doing this is sort of how we brainstorm different ideas and how we can turn ideas into reality.

so we have something called narratives and also things called like prfaqs and these are ways for us to kind of like um generate an idea and to be able to elaborate and expand on it get people's feedback and I guess the main takeaway for interns or people who are going into an internship is that at the start you might be quite overwhelmed with the different tools the different ways of doing things in a company especially if you haven't seen it being done in any other sort of the role that you were in before

so don't be afraid to ask questions um ask what sort of norms there are in certain teams like if you have a stand-up that you have to go to every single week or if you have like a team social event that is optional for you to attend things like that just making sure and clarifying what are the ways that different teams communicate and work together, especially in a virtual setting you might end up missing out on certain things if you don't ask the right questions about it.

okay so it's around 5 30 now and I wanted to talk a bit about the challenges that you face as an intern, so I just finished work um done for the day and this is kind of the last part I wanted to discuss with this video and this part is something I think is quite important because there's a big emphasis on getting that first internship there's a big emphasis on how to do well how to succeed the benefits of internships but not too much is discussed on what challenges interns face and more importantly how to avoid these challenges in the first place and if you do find yourself
having this challenge how you can kind of work around it

so when I was doing some planning last night for the video I sort of came up with a list of things that I found challenging as an intern and depending on people's personalities
everyone sort of gets a different set of challenges that they might face I think for me specifically some of the big ones on the board were fear of uncertainty feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information I don't know and the amount of information that I need to know not sure if I'm doing well connecting with the team feeling like it's an extended interview.

I try not to think like that but sometimes you feel like you're being kind of assessed during the process so I wanted to kind of talk a bit about that and how you can sort of overcoming these challenges if you face these yourself okay so the first the challenge I wanted to talk about is the fear of uncertainty how you can overcome that when things are just out of your control sometimes you don't know a lot of new terms and it's kind of impossible to pick up everything at once.

I think first of all recognize that you're not going to know everything in the first few days and second of all try your best to make sure that you can cover a lot of things quickly that you're uncertain about giving yourself more of a peace of mind so I think for amazon what we normally get is like an onboarding plan
so it's something that links a lot of resources together to make sure that we're able to quickly figure out different processes.

in the company learn about the culture learn about what
we kind of need our role so I think doing that helps to try to
make sure that you utilize the resources that you're given so that you can help yourself limit that anxiety and uncertainty that you face and I think also just recognizing that not everything is going to be on paper so asking a lot of questions when you're uncertain about something helps.

I think people especially when you're in turn people are always willing to help and that's something that I have appreciated throughout my internship journey and has helped me a lot with this fear of uncertainty one more thing you can do is to find a mentor whether that be within the company or outside the company sometimes you're assigned to one but I think sometimes it's okay if you want to proactively Search for a mentor that's not necessarily in your current team.

I think just having someone who can trust someone you can sort of relies on when there are questions that you want to ask or if there's any advice that you want to seek helps remove that uncertainty as well the second challenge that I faced was connecting with people in my team and outside of my team.

I think in my previous internships I've always taken a bit longer than the other interns to bond with people in the team that I was in but working from home made it a lot worse because people talk less about their life their hobbies the career aspirations things like that when they're not in the office when they're on a virtual time core um working from home mainly as a new intern it's kind of hard to break the ice initially.

it's so it's something that you have to consciously try and do so what I recommend doing is making the effort to get to know everyone in your team so when you first join set up half an hour course with people in your team and make sure that you specify that it's specifically just to try and get to know each other and to maybe for you to learn a bit about what they do their role.

but you know specifically to sort of like get to know them as a person as well so that way you can break the ice early on to avoid those initial like awkward conversations that you have and Make sure that you have a more enjoyable experience working from home because connecting with people is quite important I think as an intern when you can get all your work done go above and beyond make an impact on your team.

it's as good as that is it's very important to be able to integrate well with the team and trust them and get to
know people as who they are outside of work as well the third and final challenge that I'm going to talk about today is sometimes feeling like your internship is like an interview.

I've heard this phrase a lot from people in the past and I think it's coming from good intentions because they want you to kind of keep it in the back of your mind that you're kind of being assessed your performance is being assessed so that in the end you can receive a return offer but I think it's quite an unhealthy mindset.

sometimes it can get quite unhealthy especially if you're an overthinker you can't just kind of fixate on that long-term end goal and not be able to kind of focus on other things and it does sound a bit quite extreme but overthinkers will kind of know what I mean by this but I think what helped me overcome this challenge and I was really lucky to be able to change my mindset and overcome this challenge within the first two months of the internship.

it was to focus less on myself um what the company can bring to me but instead, focus more on especially since I was an intern for six months what I can offer to my team and what value I can bring to the company so with that in mind, I was focused more on how I can make my manager's day easier things like what help I can offer to others outside my team and how to be more involved as an intern just to have some more fun throughout my internship experience. "

so with that, I was able to overcome that or like everything is an interview sort of mindset and I would recommend doing the same trying to figure out what value you can bring to the company this wraps up my article hopefully, in this article you were able to learn more about what interns do.

how teams communicate and collaborate to solve problems and what challenges interns might face working from home if you enjoyed this article please give it a like and share your thoughts down below Fallow if you want to see more tech student or career-related advice articles.

AWS Tech U Program Experience (Solutions Architect)How I would learn AWS Cloud

Ankit Dubey — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:25:16 +0000

hey everyone this is Ankit and today I am writing about AWS Tech U Program Experience (Solutions Architect) this is a highly requested article topic of this week.

In this article, reflect her experience in the AWS Tech U Program as an Associate Solutions Architect, and share advice for students interested in the program. and If I could start over, this is how she would learn AWS. In this article, I outline a 3-step roadmap to kick-start your journey with learning about the cloud & AWS.

Step 1: Cloud Fundamentals
Step 2: Get AWS Certified
Step 3: Hands-on Experience
Step 4: Bonus Tips & Tricks

The AWS Tech U Program is an accelerated career development program for those early in their career, to fill technical positions in AWS teams. More information :

so Lucy said in her video given details about this topic. " before i started working at aws i honestly didn't really know what the cloud was i remember during the days leading up to my aws interviews i was frantically trying to watch youtube videos and read articles just to make sure i could understand the basic definition of cloud computing and how aws fits into the picture thankfully the role i applied for was an internship in a non-technical team so the emphasis wasn't on how much i knew about the cloud and all the technical concepts that came along with it i had a lot of fun during that internship i met tons of cool people and
i worked on some interesting projects and since then i've converted my internship into a full-time graduate role as an associate solutions architect.

and i've been in this role for just over a year now in this time i've gotten five aws certifications. what it's like working at aws as an associate solutions architect i spend a lot of time these days engaging with customers and helping them on their cloud journey by providing technical guidance so knowing what i know now how would i learn aws if i were to start over i joined aws not really knowing much about cloud computing and i really had to put
in a lot of time and effort into my learning i've definitely made a few mistakes throughout my learning process and so in this article i wanted to share a three-step roadmap that you can use to
gain a solid understanding of aws and make sure you read until the end of this article.

because i'll be sharing some tips and tricks to make sure you don't burn out or give up throughout this whole journey all the resources i mentioned will be linked in the end of this article below and if you find this article helpful in any way please make
sure to give it a like.

all right so before you dive straight into studying for aws certifications i would recommend first getting a basic understanding of what cloud computing is and also fill in any initial gaps you may have in your knowledge you can start off by watching this three minute video on the aws official youtube channel that defines what cloud computing is if there's anything that sounds unfamiliar to you

for example you're not too sure what a physical data center is or what networking is you can fill in these gaps by doing your research online if you're already familiar with what cloud computing is feel free to head straight to step two step number two is where the hard work actually begins because instead of reading blogs and also watching videos just to get a basic understanding of the cloud this step is all about working towards getting an awful certification the first one i recommend taking is the aws cloud practitioner certification.

getting this certification shows employers you have a foundational understanding of aws it also provides a structured learning pathway for you because there are specific topics they will test you on if you're interested in getting this certification i recommend checking out this video i made about how i was able to pass the aws cloud practitioner exam

in three weeks which was actually my first ever youtube video the exam is one and a half hours long and to prepare for it i followed video courses and did practice exams i'll link all the resources i used to study for adb certifications in the end of this article below

so make sure you take a look if you're interested now if i were to go back and redo this step i would also use this free 6 hour cloud practitioner essentials course offered by aws i've heard really great things about this course so if you don't want to use any paid resources this could be a really good one to start with once you get your aws cloud practitioners set instead of moving straight to step 3 what i recommend is also getting your aws solutions arctic associate cert this one requires a deeper knowledge of aws and focuses more on architectural patterns

as well as how to identify the best aws services for a given technical requirement now step three is the part where a lot of people tend to stumble on and tend to try and avoid and i was guilty of that as well for a while so at the end of the day the aws solutions architect associate exam and other certification exams they're all multiple choice exams and to really build your skills in aws you have to be hands-on

this means doing a lot of aws self-paced labs having a look at the online workshops available and trying to build something that you're able to showcase there's actually heaps of resources out
there to help with this so the first resource i recommend is workshops.aws this is an aws site where you can find self-paced workshops ranging from all levels of difficulty so you can see there's level 300 level 200 level 100 as well and there's a lot of workshops.

you can choose from so for example this aws networking workshop you can see that it covers the full spectrum of aws networking all the way from the basics of a vpc and subnets to the more advanced configurations the next resource is aws ramp up guides and i've actually recommended this to my customers before especially customers who are quite new to the cloud so you can see that you can choose ramp up guides by role by solution or by industry and for example just clicking on one of the ramp up guides you can see that they've actually centralized a lot of the useful materials.

for example white papers and self-paced labs the third resource i'd like to recommend is actually udemy courses there's actually a few udemy courses that actually offer a lot of hands-on experience for example this one is all about building a serverless web app with aws lambda and you can see there's seven and a half hours of on-demand video so if you prefer learning through video demos and
having someone walk through the steps one by one it might be more engaging for you and easier to follow along okay now

let's talk about some tips and tricks to make sure you don't give up halfway through your learning i've written some notes here and there's a few key things i wanted to mention the first one is
that you don't have to follow a super linear approach when you know approaching your cloud journey when it comes to aws certifications there's nothing forcing you to sit through a whole 50-hour video course.

before you start doing practice questions and before you start trying out some of the abyss workshops in fact it's actually better if you don't do that don't go through the whole video course end to end and then do the practice exams it's much better if you focus on the different topics that the aws certification covers and then validate that knowledge through practice questions and then following that up with hands-on exercises where you're able to see what it actually looks like.

in the aims console and how these services work and linked together my second tip is to always remember your why so why didn't you decide to embark on this challenging journey in the first place i think for a lot of you it might be to land a job in tech more specifically in cloud computing and so getting an aws certification learning the foundations of aws can really help you stand out in the application process.

if you set that as your end goal you can work backwards from that and set small achievable milestones that you have to complete at the end of each month so for example in by the end of the first month you can be like i want to get my aws certified cloud practitioner exam done and by setting milestones and
celebrating after every milestone it would really help you stay motivated and consistent throughout the whole journey.

my third tip is to just be kind to yourself because everyone learns things differently and at a different pace as well and everyone comes from different technical backgrounds some people might not know anything about it whereas some people might be working in tech for a couple years but don't really understand cloud concepts yet so i would recommend never comparing your progress with other people and just focus on what you want to achieve all right so this brings us to the very end of this article hope you

enjoyed it if you did please give it a like and if you have any questions comments suggestions leave it down in the comments below and in the meantime before i write my next article feel free to check out any of these article to learn more about what it's like working at aws.

What Does An AWS Solutions Architect Actually Do? Explained In 5 Minutes

Ankit Dubey — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:08:18 +0000

hey everyone this is Ankit and today I am writing about what a solutions architect does at AWS now this is a highly requested article topic.

first of all

what does a solutions architect do?

second of all

what are some of the roles and responsibilities of an AWS solutions architect?

if you're interested in learning more about the role as a solutions architect the skills required and how you can become a solutions architect in 2022

so Lucy said in her video given details about this topic. I've been working as an Associate Solutions Architect at AWS for 1 year.

all right now let's head over to the Amazon jobs page okay so according to the amazon's job page the solutions architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies by partnering with internal teams and leveraging deep technical knowledge of our tools and products

she said " you'll craft highly scalable flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address our customer's business problems
come join us in making the impossible possible well that the last sentence sounded pretty cool

I thought I add to this because after hearing about the solutions architect role for the first time it might be hard to figure out what exactly we do and why was needs solutions architects in the first place

so without the help of a solutions architect customers can still use the products and services that AWS offers but with over 200 to choose from and hundreds of pages of documentation about how to use them it can be quite hard to know what's the best solution for their particular situation and this is where a solutions architect comes in a solutions

the architect is essentially a trusted advisor for the customer as they go through their journey with using the cloud so AWS solutions architects didn't go into the customer's
console and build everything out for them we have other teams at AWS to help with that and we also collaborate with other companies as well for them to help the customer out with the more hands-on implementation

but what we do instead is provide technical guidance to help the customers make architectural decisions that not only follow the best practices but also make sure that the solutions are secure performant cost-optimized and also fault-tolerant now when it comes to the roles and responsibilities of a solutions architect it does vary depending on the team that you're in and the type of solutions architect that you are so

there are many teams that we have at aws there's the enterprise team there's a smaller medium business team digital native business team there are a few different types of teams and these teams are usually split up depending on the different customers that we have at AWS

but we also have other teams with specialist essays that focus on a specific knowledge domain for example there are security specialist solutions architects or solutions architects who focus more on networking or databases but generally speaking solutions architects

typically focus around half of their time engaging with customers and helping them out this could be through the form of having a whiteboarding session where you're showing them what architecture would look like if they were to move on AWS solutions architect could also be building out a proof of concept for a customer and showcasing that through a demo they could also be doing an architectural review to help the customers improve on their architecture or they could be simply just helping the
customer out by answering some of their questions either through email or through a call so you might be wondering well if half the time is spent with customers what do essays do during the other half of their time so the rest of.

the time is typically split between internal meetings speaking at events writing blogs running technical workshops sometimes mentoring other solutions architects or even creating a new program at aws that can provide some sort of value at the scale we also have something we do all sharpen the store time

where we cover up some time for learning and this involves studying for AdWords certifications to catch you up with new
product updates or diving deep into learning more about a set of AWS services so the role of a solutions architect has many elements to it part of it is talking to the customer

I've officially graduated from that techie program and joined my current team where I'm working with customers and helping them accelerate their cloud journey as you probably hear just like any other role in the tech industry, no two days are the same the main distinction between an associate solutions architect versus a solutions architect is that we have a lot more guidance and support when it comes to learning so what I do is I can spend a lot of my time doing shadowing and reverse shadowing different customers so if I ever want to receive feedback on how I'm talking in front of a customer and how I'm engaging with the customer, I can ask for a more senior essay to reverse shadow me and that way I can get some feedback that's what I spend a lot of my time doing these days. "

still, she is doing a lot of learning doing AWS certifications and his next goal is to complete the advs security specialty certification there are also a lot of meetings as well throughout the day in the form of internal meetings and team stand-ups. she said " we also have a bunch of
customer meetings something else I'm doing in AWS is helping students and people earning their career learn more about cloud and also develop career-ready skills alright so this brings us. "

so to the end of this article thank you so much for reading and if you have any questions please leave them down below and
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