Why Choose AWS As Career

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Why and How to Pursue a Caree
r in AWS
 Are you exploring your different options for AWS careers?
Spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will
more than double to approximately $500 billion by 2023,
according to data from IDC. This represents a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 22 percent. The main
areas of investment in the public cloud for this five-year
window of high growth will be:
 Professional services (25.6%)
 Telecommunications (24.1%)
 Retail (23.7%)
 Resource industries (23.3%)
 Personal and consumer services (23.1%)
 Why AWS?
AWS Is the #1 Public Cloud Platform

 AWS leads the pack when it comes to public cloud computing.

If you consider IaaS (infrastructure as a service)—just one
segment of the public cloud market—AWS quickly leads the
market. Statista states that AWS holds about 33 percent of the
IaaS market segment, which is almost as much as the next two
leading providers combined (Microsoft Azure and
Google Cloud Platform) hold. Furthermore, the AWS market
share shows signs of enormous growth in other areas besides
IaaS, as the total IaaS market is less than half of the SaaS
(software as a service) market.
 Demand for AWS Jobs Outstrips Available Professionals

 In the public cloud job market, there are

between six to 12 times more job postings
available than there are job seekers, and
60 percent of these job postings are AWS-
related. Employers in the United States, for
example, say that it’s quite a
challenge finding professionals with cloud co
mputing skills
in general. This imbalance will continue to be
the case for a long time to come.
Proficiency in Cloud Computing Is a Necessity for IT
Professionals

 More widespread utilization of machine learning (ML)

and artificial intelligence (AI) in the cloud is projected
to be a trend that continues well into and beyond
2022. Furthermore, about 50 percent of IT
professionals have confidence that AI and machine
learning will play an enormous role in the adoption of
cloud computing. Since AWS is the leading public
cloud computing service that is widely adopted by
organizations both large and small, then it also
reasons that learning AWS has become a necessity for
IT professionals who want to secure their future
careers.
Choose a Career Path that Suits You Best

 There are a lot of AWS career paths from which you can
choose. The career path you want can be based on either:
 The Role: Such as cloud practitioner, operations,
architect, and developer
 The Solution: Such as storage, machine learning, and AWS
media services
 You could also choose a specialty area on which to focus
your attention and validate advanced skills in specific
technical domains. These specialty areas include
advanced networking, big data, and security. Read on to
find more details on the certifications that you could
acquire for your AWS career. 
Available AWS Certifications 

 1. AWS Foundational Level Certification (1 certification)

 Certification: AWS Cloud Practitioner – Foundational
 Scope: Introduction and basic level understanding of
cloud computing including a basic understanding of
how AWS works
 2. AWS Associate Level Certifications (3 certifications)
 Certifications: 
 AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
 AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate
 AWS Certified Developer – Associate
 Scope: A Deeper understanding of AWS architecture,
development, and operations
 3. AWS Professional Level Certifications (2 certifications)
 Certifications:
 AWS Solutions Architect - Professional
 AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional
 Scope: A more in-depth understanding of AWS architecture
and engineering
 4. AWS Specialty Certifications (3 certifications)
 Certifications:
 Advanced Networking - Specialty
 Security - Specialty
 Big Data - Specialty
 Scope: A detailed understanding of specialty areas related to
AWS 
Best Paying AWS-Jobs Based on Certification and Job Type

 AWS Certified Solutions Architect

 The job requires these candidates to understand and
do the following:
 The building, architecting, and maintaining of cost-
efficient, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud
environments
 Keep up to date with cloud computing and
recommend the latest AWS toolsets 
 After training as an AWS Solutions Architect Associate,
AWS freshers can earn up to $130,883 at the associate
level and up to $148,456 at the professional level. 
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

 The job requires the following:

 Candidates should proficiently design AWS

solutions that positively impact business

 Implement and maintain servers including

patching and debugging as needed

 These professionals can earn up to $137,724.
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

 They are responsible for:

 Provisioning, installing, configuring,

operating, and maintaining systems (virtual

and non-virtual), software, and other related
infrastructure
 Building reporting dashboards and

maintaining analytics software

 AWS Certified SysOps administrator jobs pay

up to $130,610.  
AWS Certified Developer

 AWS Developers are expected to:

 Build enterprise-level applications and

software services 
 Understand standard cloud orchestration

tools
 These professionals can earn up to $130,272.