--- title: Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) description: Cloud certifications validate platform skills for hiring. You will find study paths for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud associate and professional exams, practice resources and advice on which certification to pursue. category: programming-tech subcategory: cloud-computing difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/cloud-certifications --- # Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) Cloud certifications validate platform skills for hiring. You will find study paths for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud associate and professional exams, practice resources and advice on which certification to pursue. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Courses • 5 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Jayendra's Cloud Certification Blog **Author:** Jayendra Patil Long-running blog of condensed cloud certification notes, exam learning paths, service cheat sheets and sample questions, mainly for AWS Solutions Architect, Developer and DevOps exams, with some Google Cloud and Kubernetes coverage. Candidates use it to review exam-relevant service details before sitting a certification. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://jayendrapatil.com/ **Tags:** aws-certification, exam-prep, cheat-sheets, solutions-architect, google-cloud-certification ### 2. Digital Cloud Training **Author:** Neal Davis Neal Davis's AWS training site, built around certification prep: paid video courses and practice exams alongside free cheat sheets, service comparisons, and beginner guides. Most useful for drilling exam-relevant service details after you have covered the fundamentals. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://digitalcloud.training/ **Tags:** aws, cloud-certification, exam-prep, cloud-computing, practice-exams ### 3. Tutorials Dojo AWS Cheat Sheets Free bullet-point reference notes on roughly two hundred AWS services, pitched at the level of detail the certification exams test. Useful for final review of service limits, pricing models, and the comparisons exams like to ask about. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-cheat-sheets/ **Tags:** aws, cloud-certification, exam-review, aws-services, cheat-sheets ### 4. Google Cloud Certification Google's certification directory covers Cloud Digital Leader, the Associate exams, and the Professional tracks. Each page carries the current PDF exam guide, a free sample-question form, the official learning path, exam cost, and renewal rules. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification **Tags:** google-cloud, gcp, cloud-certification, exam-guides, cloud-digital-leader ### 5. Microsoft Learn Credentials Microsoft's certification hub links every Azure exam to a free study guide, free Microsoft Learn training paths, and a free official practice assessment written by the same team that authors the exams and revised as objectives change. Azure's certification track is unusual in giving away the whole prep stack: role-based learning paths, per-exam study guides listing exactly what changed and when, and unlimited free practice assessments for AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-500 and dozens more. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/ **Tags:** microsoft-azure, azure-certification, az-900, az-104, practice-assessments ## Courses ### 1. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional AWS's own exam-preparation material for the Certified DevOps Engineer Professional credential, covering CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and logging, incident response, and security and compliance controls on AWS. Assumes prior hands-on experience administering AWS environments. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-certified-devops-engineer-professional/ **Tags:** aws, ci-cd, infrastructure-as-code, certification, devops ### 2. AWS Skill Builder Exam Prep AWS's own training platform hosts a free four-step exam prep plan for every current certification: 20-question Official Practice Question Sets, domain-by-domain prep courses, and flashcards. Only the full-length Official Practice Exams sit behind a paid subscription. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://skillbuilder.aws/exam-prep **Tags:** aws, aws-certification, exam-prep, practice-questions, cloud-certification ## Books ### 1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide with 900 Practice Test Questions: Associate (SAA-C03) Exam, 4th Edition **Author:** Ben Piper, David Clinton Sybex's exam-aligned textbook for the SAA-C03 blueprint, chapter by chapter, with review questions, hands-on exercises, and an online test bank of practice exams and flashcards. Covers compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and resilience. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119982626?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** aws, solutions-architect-associate, saa-c03, cloud-certification, practice-exams ### 2. Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide **Author:** Dan Sullivan Dan Sullivan's official Sybex study guide (first edition, 2019) for the Professional Cloud Architect exam. Chapters map to the exam objectives, covering business and technical requirements, compute, storage and network design, security, migration planning and reliability, with review questions and online practice tests. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119871050?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** google-cloud, cloud-architecture, certification, exam-prep, professional-cloud-architect ## Youtubes ### 1. AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification (SAA-C03) - Full Course **Author:** Andrew Brown Fifty-hour video course walking the whole SAA-C03 blueprint: EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, serverless, and the Well-Architected Framework, with follow-along labs. Structured against the current AWS exam guide rather than a generic AWS overview. The strongest free alternative to the paid Udemy/Cantrill courses everyone else recommends, and long enough to actually teach the services rather than drill answers. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Cn4xYfxJY **Tags:** aws, aws-solutions-architect, saa-c03, cloud-architecture, cloud-certification --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/cloud-certifications