AWS Explained
Published: 2023-08-22 18:44:47

In this blog, I will highlight more about the AWS categories, accessing AWS services, and AWS certifications.

**Categories of AWS Services**
AWS services fall under different categories, and each category contains one or more services. You can select the services that you want from these different categories to build your solutions.

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**Accessing AWS Services**
You might wonder how to access the broad array of services that are offered by AWS. There are three ways to create and manage resources on the AWS Cloud:

1. **AWS Management Console** - The console provides a rich graphical interface to a majority of the features offered by AWS. (Note: From time to time, new features might not have all of their capabilities included in the console when the feature initially launches.)
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1. **AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)** - The AWS CLI provides a suite of utilities that can be launched from a command script in Linux, macOS, or Microsoft Windows.
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1. **Software Development Kits (SDKs)** - AWS provides packages that enable accessing AWS in a variety of popular programming languages. This makes it easy to use AWS in your existing applications and it also enables you to create applications that deploy and monitor complex systems entirely through code.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has several AWS certifications which will validate your technical skills and cloud expertise to grow your career and business.

There are four (4) level of AWS Certification namely:

1. **Foundational** - Knowledge-based certification for foundational understanding of AWS Cloud.
No prior experience needed.
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1. **Associate** - Role-based certifications that showcase your knowledge and skills on AWS and build your credibility as an AWS Cloud professional. Prior cloud and/or strong on-premises IT experience recommended.
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1. **Professional** - Role-based certifications that validate advanced skills and knowledge required to design secure, optimized, and modernized applications and to automate processes on AWS. 2 years of prior AWS Cloud experience recommended.
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1. **Specialty** - Dive deeper and position yourself as a trusted advisor to your stakeholders and/or customers in these strategic areas. Refer to the exam guides on the exam pages for recommended experience.
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To learn more about AWS Certification, you may visit the [**AWS Certification**](https://aws.amazon.com/certification/) web page.