This is why I suspect most cloud certifications are garbage. Most often they are just teaching you their product offerings. Even the implementation details aren

This is why I suspect most cloud certifications are garbage. Most often they are just teaching you their product offerings. Even the implementation details aren't that useful because they change so often. Compared to something like a Cisco networking certification: The CCNA will cover practical use of their products, sure, but they're also going to teach you subnetting, both standard and Cisco proprietary routing protocols and how they work, in theory, as well as how to employ them in practice. I've mostly moved on from using Cisco products day to day, but all of the understanding was directly translatable to any other platform I've worked with.