For me getting an AWS cert before I started job hopping helped in my confidence. It cost time to learn the material but I felt more confident that I had knowled

For me getting an AWS cert before I started job hopping helped in my confidence. It cost time to learn the material but I felt more confident that I had knowledge of the cloud platform. Doing a cert also exposes you to a wider arrange of services than what you'd normally use if you were trying to build something and ship it out the door. A cert will never replace or exceed real world xp in value tho