AWS certifications from AWS are reasonably legit. That said, most certifications are a negative indicator of competence. This is supported by direct experienc

AWS certifications from AWS are reasonably legit. That said, most certifications are a negative indicator of competence. This is supported by direct experience and research studies. At the prior 3 institutions I was CTO, we routinely screened out resumes with a laundry list of certifications before even speaking to candidates. Note this is not about having certifications, it’s about mediocre candidates attempting to signal competence on the resume by listing a pile of cert-mill nonsense. The negative correlation is so high, when hiring at scale just toss the ones with certs (but give recruiters a list of exceptions, e.g., AWS, CNCF, etc.). // Again, there are exceptions, and AWS first party certifications are among them.