CERTS &
STUDY.
Solutions Architect Associate is the cloud-architecture foundation. Generative AI Developer – Professional is the capability that matters for applied-AI work: foundation-model integration on Bedrock. A real build sits between them, so the second cert rests on shipped work, not exam cramming. Applied-AI and architecture, on purpose — not classical MLOps or fine-tuning.
Certifications
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Claude Certified Architect Foundations
Agentic architecture, MCP tool design, Claude Code workflows, context management. ~70% of exam surface overlaps existing daily practice.
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Foundational GenAI-on-AWS vocabulary. Pre-SAA warmup that fills the Bedrock/SageMaker gap SAA skims over.
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
Foundation + legibility cert, and the AWS-listed precursor to the GenAI Dev Pro. Standalone study (Maarek + Tutorials Dojo); the Bedrock build supplies the hands-on.
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AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional
On-lane capability cert: integrating foundation models (Bedrock) into production apps — RAG, agents, guardrails, eval. Professional-tier; the Bedrock build provides the hands-on it assumes.
AWS path
1/6 done- Phase 1 SAA-C03 Foundations 1/6
- Build a VPC with public + private subnets across 2 AZs · 1h
- Wire route tables, an internet gateway, and a NAT gateway · 1h
- Write a least-privilege IAM role + policy for an EC2 app · 1h
- Host a static site on S3 behind CloudFront with OAC · 1h
- Stand up a Multi-AZ RDS instance with a read replica · 1h
- Read the Well-Architected Framework pillars overview · 1h