Why AWS Certification Is Crucial for Cloud Professionals in 2025
For more than twenty years, AWS has been leading the way in cloud computing. In 2006, AWS comprised just one region in US-East-1; now AWS is covering the globe with many more regions & availability zones. AWS has now over 31% market share globally and is now the predominant public cloud player. This provides many advantages such as high availability & agility for provisioning dynamic compute & database resources. Customers can now deploy global solutions in a matter of minutes without the need for large CAPEX expenditure deploying IT services at the touch of a button or through ML/AI services.
When it comes to solutioning for AWS services this requires deep knowledge and understanding with therefore associated certification. This certification is proof of credibility when it comes to deploying and interacting with AWS teams. Certification will be the key to mastering the AWS technology potential when it comes designing, deploying & managing the services.
As the number of AWS services increases (which number over 200 today) – it is important to keep up to date with the latest certification & training developments in order to understand the changes to the AWS portal, and the services (new services available and services that are end-of-life/retired).
AWS skillsets and roles can be broad & diversified. With AWS the certification path can be adapted to the role the user plays within the AWS infrastructure. This will build confidence in your teams’ ability to work with AWS, improve efficiency & potential cost savings, and drive innovation. It will build your customer’s confidence that your team is knowledgeable & certified to work on the AWS platform.
A tailored AWS certification pathway for different roles within your company is extremely important to demonstrate & showcase the understanding of the services. This can start at the practitioner level following on through to the architect and advanced architect level certifications. Complimenting those certifications, other certifications such as data analytics and developer certifications are important for the management and development of applications.
Perhaps the training needs to be geared towards security e.g. IAM services for System Administration, or towards DB service expertise or migration for DB Admins, or even DevOps for developing & deploying IaaS, SaaS solutions across frameworks such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or associated Containerized solutions. Be it troubleshooting issues, or deploying solutions in the AWS cloud, certification is important to ensure that the best practices are followed & respected. Certification will lead to credibility of your offerings to your customers.
Company roles are very dynamic, perhaps one of your employees is changing roles – hence the importance of recertification within the AWS realms to suit the requirements of the new role.
Another important component of the training is to understand the compliance aspects of the AWS solution – e.g. GDPR in terms of data storage in certain regions and other public compliances for financial and healthcare industries.
All in all, AWS certification is a must have for any customers to showcase & validate their skillsets & credibility to respective institutions, their own customers as well as the wider AWS community, keep their customers safe by deploying the solutions in a best practices manner with a security & compliance first approach.
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