AWS vs Azure Certs: Picking the Right Cloud Horse in 2025
People have been asking me this question for several years and the honest answer has shifted more than once as the market has developed.…
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Cloud Cost Optimization Is the New Hot Skill. Here’s How to Get Credentialed.
The cloud cost conversation changed somewhere around 2022. For years the dominant cloud narrative in enterprise IT was adoption and migration. Organizations were focused…
AWS Cloud Practitioner Is More Relevant Than Ever. Here’s Why.
The AWS Cloud Practitioner exam is worth talking about because I think this credential gets undersold in most certification discussions. What Is the AWS…
Cloud Certs in a Pandemic Job Market: What’s Actually Getting People Hired
The job market for IT professionals in mid-2020 looks nothing like it did in January. Some sectors have contracted sharply. Others have accelerated. And…
Azure Role-Based Certs: Microsoft’s Smartest Move in Years
I am not usually in the habit of giving Microsoft credit for things before the evidence is in. They have pulled enough bait-and-switches over…
Why the AWS Solutions Architect Cert Is Suddenly Everywhere
Three of my students this year have asked me about AWS after class. Not about vSphere. About AWS. That is a data point I…
Google’s Cloud Architect Cert Is Worth a Look
Okay so I spent most of last weekend going down a rabbit hole on the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification and I have…
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