Becoming Azure Certified after using AWS for 10 years : Intro
I have been Using AWS regularly since 2011 and I have been certified since 2017. This article is going to be about my observations about the difficulty to get an azure certification. I have the AWS solutions architect associate and AWS sys ops administrator certifications. Iam going for the Azure Admin cert and I my indent is to document the process. I was hoping that by documenting and sharing my views would actually make it easier, that we shall see is TBD. This is going to be a series of articles that explains the IAAS and PAAS Solutions that both AWS and Azure offer. A few of the biggest questions I have at the moment are:
What specifically makes each platform better than the other, or why would I want to choose AWS over Azure and vise versa?
What makes each service offering unique to that platform? (the windows operating system is a interesting topic to explore this question)
What are the differences between what an executive is looking for in a cloud platform vs a cloud engineer?
I have yet to take the azure admin cert but I know the AWS cert was largely scenario based gotcha questions that are designed to trick you and written just mmhm. What are the Azure test questions like?
What AWS and Azure services are a one to one in feature set and which are not? why? (This might be a another series of articles in its self.)
I am more interested in documenting my journey than I am in vender preference battles. With that being said I hope to be able to show non developers (executives) the cost benefit to them by choosing a cloud platform that suites their developer base. I recognize that this is an assumption, if you are shopping for a cloud platform and you are windows shop company azure is probably going to be the best choice cp for you. Wouldn’t that be interesting if I were wrong.
The technical road map of a tech company is essentially where that company will be in the next so many years. It tells you a lot about what the company cares about and more importantly what the company doesn’t care about. I also plan on looking at the publicly released road maps of the two cloud platforms to see what ares that azure cares uniquely about? what does AWS uniquely care about? What does this say about both companies? Since 2011 AWS’s cloud account best practices took a 180 spin because of what customers were asking for. Does Azure follow the same account standards? if so why? have they discovered something that makes the customer demands more simplified or do they just not care? These are all questions that I am very excited to have the answers too.
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