I passed 13 AWS certifications. Here's what I actually use at work (and what collects dust).

An unexpected production outage involving RDS and ECS prompted the author to debug using CloudWatch Logs and VPC flow logs.

The author holds 13 AWS certifications and works as an AWS Solutions Architect at Wipro in London.

They find Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, and Security Specialty most impactful for daily work.

The author advises new learners to follow a specific certification order then build and break real systems to gain practical skills.