There are different types of SAs at AWS. There are the generalist SAs who I never worked with and the specialist SAs who have deep experience in a specific are

There are different types of SAs at AWS. There are the generalist SAs who I never worked with and the specialist SAs who have deep experience in a specific area of the industry - not just AWS. And even they aren’t to be confused with “consultants”. SAs are free to customers and give general guidance and are not allowed to give the customers any code. Consultants are full time employees at AWS who get paid by the customer to do hands on keyboard work. But even we couldn’t work in production environments. We did initial work and taught the customer how to maintain and enhance the work. If you don’t know the cloud fundamentals, learning enough to pass a few multiple choice questions. As an anecdote, I passed the first one - the Solution Architect Associate - before I ever opened the AWS console.