If you are a consultant, the answer is “probably yes”. Most consulting companies I’ve worked for or otherwise know of will market themselves based on how many

If you are a consultant, the answer is “probably yes”. Most consulting companies I’ve worked for or otherwise know of will market themselves based on how many consultants in the company have which certifications. If you’re an in-house “individual contributor”, then that depends in part on your company. They might place a lot of value on certifications. Or not. For you personally, I would say whether a certification matters to you depends on what you think your career path is going to be, and what value you expect to get out of a certification. Some certifications are hard to get because they test you on a wide array of things, and if you have that certification, then that means you actually know something about the subject. But many certs don’t fall into this category. For AWS certifications, the lower-level ones don’t have a great deal of value in my book, although I also confess that so far I only have the lowest-level AWS Cloud Certified Practitioner (AWS CCP) cert myself. But they can be a demonstration that you’re willing to put up with a certain amount of BS in order to get the cert in question, and they can be a demonstration of your willingness to go further and deeper. The higher level AWS certifications do appear to have at least some real value, IMO. I’m on my own path to getting there, and I know how much work I expect to put into to get them. I can’t speak for any other cloud certifications. I don’t have any, and I have no plans at this time to get any. Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions only, and do not reflect those of my employer.