AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification

At the beginning of 2026, I worked towards my AWS certification. Earlier, I did my GCP certification, as you can read in my GCP ACE blog post.

The reason to consider the AWS certification as well started from a change at work: the decision had been taken somewhere in 2025 to shift the company from GCP to AWS as the main cloud platform. As part of that, the idea was that all devs would join in a weekly routine where we would try to follow an online learning path by Pluralsight¹. Ideally, some of us would then also take the AWS certification exam, since it would be a tangible goal to work towards. Naturally, I followed along in all those sessions.

Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

The past few months, I did spend quite some of my leisure time getting my Google Cloud Platform (GCP) certification.

I have always been interested in understanding infrastructure and doing operational work. In my current job, we do use GCP quite extensively for our infrastructure needs and consequently I was given the opportunity there to train on GCP.

One of the approaches of learning for a cloud platform turned out to be registering for GCP certification. Certification entails that you take an exam to show the knowledge attained.