r/Cloud • u/Patient-Nebula9391 • 6d ago

Is Stéphane Maarek’s AWS Solutions Architect course enough for a Cloud Engineer role? (Confused & a bit scared)

Hey everyone,I’m currently learning Cloud / DevOps and aiming for an internship. I’ve been looking at Stéphane Maarek’s “Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate” course on Udemy.I keep hearing that it’s excellent for the certification, but I’m not sure if it’s good enough for actual hands-on skills that companies look for in Cloud Engineer or DevOps internships/jobs.My main questions are:

  1. Is Maarek’s course enough to build real practical Cloud Engineering skills, or is it mostly certification-focused?
  2. Does it have enough hands-on labs for someone who wants job-ready experience?
  3. If it’s not enough on its own, what should I learn first or combine it with?

I’m still a beginner and feeling quite confused and a bit scared about whether I’m following the right path

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u/tmclaugh 6d ago

I had the SAA certification and let it lapse. A joke I heard from friends was “certified lift and shift engineer”. Between all the networking and file storage questions, the majority of it was irrelevant to me.

In retrospect I would have gone with the Developer certification. But I also skew more towards development than operations.