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AWS Generative AI Developer - Professional

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Almost two years after finishing my original eight-certification journey, I’ve added the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional to the list. With how quickly GenAI has evolved, this felt like the natural next step.

I prepared using Stephane Maarek’s Ultimate AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional course on Udemy, switching platforms midway for deeper hands-on labs with emerging services.

These notes focus on the GenAI-specific concepts – the places where traditional AWS knowledge doesn’t fully carry you. If you’re tackling this exam, I hope they save you some pain.

AWS Solutions Architect - Professional

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After earning the Advanced Networking Specialty, the Solutions Architect – Professional exam was the natural next rung on the ladder – and, honestly, one of the more demanding ones. It’s less about memorising services and more about knowing which service trade-offs to recommend when a scenario hands you a broken architecture and five ways to fix it.

These notes come from working through the AWS Solutions Architect – Professional path on Pluralsight. They’re organised around the exam’s major themes: data stores, networking, security, migration, scaling, resilience, operations, and cost. I’ve kept them flash-card dense on purpose – that’s how I learn – but I’ve flagged the traps and decision points that seem to show up repeatedly.

AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After passing the AWS Certified Security – Specialty, I decided to take on the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.

On the road to this one, I studied the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional path on Pluralsight and kept notes on the concepts that finally made things click for me.

Since I’d already covered the fundamentals in earlier certifications, these notes skip the basics and focus on the advanced, exam-critical material.

If they help you too, great – here they are, organised by the exam’s main domains.