I’m not sure if they have enough cachet to immediately yield ROI from job offers, etc. But I do believe they can offer enormous ROI for increasing your skill as

I’m not sure if they have enough cachet to immediately yield ROI from job offers, etc. But I do believe they can offer enormous ROI for increasing your skill as a cloud architect. I used AWS for years before doing any certs and my learning from the certs was easily 10x+ what I learned stumbling through it myself. So I highly recommend them. (Disclaimer - I work for AWS.)