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I have the "AWS Certified Solutions Architect " and the "Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert" certifications. I did some poc deployments on

I have the "AWS Certified Solutions Architect " and the "Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert" certifications. I did some poc deployments on both these clouds -- started with wordpress deployment, kafka deployments , oracle installs and and migrated the POC from one cloud to the other and back. Took a few months and some $$ but worth it. These certifications on my linkedin profile did help me get noticed. Use powershell exclusively for all Azure task . Use AWS CLI for all AWS tasks.

NicoJuicy 5y ago
Since you have a similar certification on both AWS and Azure. Could you give a comparison according to your observations between the two?
- manishsharan 5y ago
  Sure. Azure has 2 exams you need to clear to earn the architect certification AZ303 and AZ 304. AZ 303 requires you to recall a powershell commands -- thats why start using powershell to build all you Azure pocs. Az 304 required a lot of insight on AD configuration and features ; I found this to be the hardest as I never had an opportunity to work on AD configuration professionally. AWS certification does not require you to recall commands and the exam itself is closely aligned to what you would be doing already as an architecht. You just need to remember to do it in AWS prescribed way. I think AWS is really pushing you to be expert at Lambdas and API Gateway-- I recall that a lot of the question were related to these Both AWS and Azure expect you to be really familiar with cloud migrations and backups and cross-region replication. They both have their own version of NoSQL databases -- you need to know Azure Cosmos and MS SQL configurations, replicaion and cost structures for Azure and for AWS certication , you need to have the same knowledge for AWS DynamoDB and Aurora and be able to identify which to recommed in a given scenario. I hope you find this information useful .
  - NicoJuicy 5y ago
    I'll probably have the same issues with AD too :( Thanks!

NicoJuicy 5y ago

Since you have a similar certification on both AWS and Azure. Could you give a comparison according to your observations between the two?

manishsharan 5y ago
Sure. Azure has 2 exams you need to clear to earn the architect certification AZ303 and AZ 304. AZ 303 requires you to recall a powershell commands -- thats why start using powershell to build all you Azure pocs. Az 304 required a lot of insight on AD configuration and features ; I found this to be the hardest as I never had an opportunity to work on AD configuration professionally. AWS certification does not require you to recall commands and the exam itself is closely aligned to what you would be doing already as an architecht. You just need to remember to do it in AWS prescribed way. I think AWS is really pushing you to be expert at Lambdas and API Gateway-- I recall that a lot of the question were related to these Both AWS and Azure expect you to be really familiar with cloud migrations and backups and cross-region replication. They both have their own version of NoSQL databases -- you need to know Azure Cosmos and MS SQL configurations, replicaion and cost structures for Azure and for AWS certication , you need to have the same knowledge for AWS DynamoDB and Aurora and be able to identify which to recommed in a given scenario. I hope you find this information useful .
- NicoJuicy 5y ago
  I'll probably have the same issues with AD too :( Thanks!