Introduction
I’m happy to share a recent milestone: I’ve earned the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification!
Over the past two years, I’ve mainly been working with the GCP platform, gaining hands-on experience in SaaS cloud operations. But while preparing for this certification, I got the chance to take a more systematic and comprehensive look at AWS cloud architecture and best practices.
Actually, this whole journey started from a fun experience at the AWS Summit this August. I joined one of the sessions where the speaker hosted a small competition. Luckily, I won a prize spot, and to my surprise, the prize was a 100% discount voucher for the AWS foundational-level exam (worth around USD 100!). That turned out to be the real “value for money” reward of the event. I didn’t get any other swag, but honestly, this voucher alone made the trip more than worthwhile. And that’s how I got the chance to take this certification exam.
