AWS Certified SAP – Specialty

SAP specialty is a brand new certification exam that anyone can attempt starting April-2022. AWS SAP specialty certification is for SAP professionals to demonstrate their knowledge in the AWS cloud. It shows your ability to implement, migrate and support SAP workload in AWS using AWS’s well-architected framework. While AWS continues adding new certifications to validate your cloud skill, they also retire old certifications that are not relevant with time; for example, AWS had bigdata specialty certification, which checks your knowledge across database, ML, and analytics. With time as a number, so services increased in Database and AIML, AWS launched separate certifications called AWS database specialty and AWS machine learning Specialty. In April-2020, AWS deprecated bigdata specialty certification and renamed it to AWS analytics specialty certifications to focus just on data analytics services. Similarly, AWS retired the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty exam on March 23, 2021. Let’s learn some tips and tricks to achieve AWS certifications.

Learning tips and tricks to obtain AWS certifications

Now that we have learned about the various certifications offered by AWS let’s learn about some of the strategies we can use to get these certifications with the least amount of work possible and what we can expect as we prepare for these certifications.

Focus on one cloud provider

Some enterprises are trying to adopt a cloud-agnostic or multi-cloud strategy. The idea behind this strategy is not to depend on only one cloud provider. In theory, this seems like a good idea, and some companies such as Databricks, Snowflake, and Cloudera offer their wares to run using the most popular cloud providers.However, this agnosticism comes with some difficult choices. One way to implement this strategy is to choose the least common denominator, for example, only using compute instances so that workloads can be deployed on various cloud platforms. Implementing this approach means that you cannot use the more advanced services offered by cloud providers. For example, using AWS lambda in a cloud-agnostic fashion is quite tricky.Another way that a multi-cloud strategy can be implemented is by using the more advanced services, but this means that your staff will have to know how to use these services for all the cloud providers you decide to use. You will be a jack of all trades and a master of none, to use the common refrain.Similarly, it isn’t easy to be a cloud expert across vendors individually. It is recommended to pick one cloud provider and try to become an expert on that one stack. AWS, Azure, and GCP, to name the most popular options, offer an immense amount of services that continuously change and get enhanced, and they keep adding more services. Keeping up with one of these providers is not an easy task. Keeping up with all three, in my opinion, is close to impossible.Pick one and dominate it.