I'm curious if anyone has taken both the AWS certifications and the Google Cloud certifications.<p>Long story short - 20 years a sys admin / developer and I've never pursued a certification in anything. I've done just fine, career wise, but I think it's time to get something on paper.<p>I'm almost done with some AWS systems architect associates certification online training - planning on scheduling the exam this coming week or next week if I do well on the practice exams. I intend to take the first 3 at least (systems architect, developer and Sys Ops)<p>Can anyone compare the difficulty of the Google Cloud certs compared to AWS? I get that their different proprietary systems and in my opinion with different purposes - I personally feel Google Cloud is more for big data type situations where AWS is more for scaling and serverless architecture (please, correct me if that's wrong) - BUT - systems are systems and a basic knowledge in 1 should be helpful in the other, no?<p>(I'm a Linux guy - No Azure here...)<p>I don't intend to take the Google Cloud certs until after AWS certified and have produced some production sites to get real world experience with it. So this is really just a "I think I'm gonna do x" right now, then a "I'm doing it next week" type question.
I can't say on Google certs, but I passed the AWS ones - I wouldn't go for developer and sys ops both - they are the same level certs in the same certification path, so it seems like a waste of money to get them both really :)<p>Quick note, it's "solutions architect" not "system architect".<p>AWS certs are very focused on AWS products, so may not be helpful for Google Cloud. The developer/sysops -> devops path may be a bit better of the two, as it focuses on how to get stuff done, while solutions architect is a bit more higher level knowledge of putting AWS products together.
Just jumping on in terms of the "architecture" certifications. I'm currently doing the Azure architecture certification (And have the course materials for the AWS ones too). They are REALLY light on implementation. It's literally like reading a feature list of every single thing the cloud provider offers.<p>It's for when a question comes up like "Hmm. How can we we send a message that allows a yet to be decided amount of subscribers to act on that message? I know! Azure Service Bus!".<p>It's not that expensive to get the certifications so I usually say go for it. But it can be really dry and not as "real worldy" as you might expect.