AWS Basics

The First and the foremost requirement for the AWS developer is to get the certification as employers would be looking for employees with certification so that they fall under one of the categories of partner programming:

    Partner                          Associate Certificates                          Professional Certificates

1. Standard                                       2                                                              0
2. Advanced                                     4                                                              2
3. Premier                                        20                                                             8

The different certification exams that are available in the market currently:
1. Developer Associate
2. Solutions Architect Associate
3. Sysops Administrator Associate
4. Security Specialist
5. Big Data Speciality
6. Devops Pro
7. Advanced Networking Speciality
8. Solutions Architect Professional

The first being the easiest and the last one the hardest.

There is a very good reason to try to complete all the eight certifications, since he/she will be the first in the world as of today :)

Get Started:
Go to https://aws.amazon.com/free/ and get yourself a free account.

A Brief history of AWS:

Officially Launched in 2006. 

SQS and EC2 were some of the first services available.

2012 First Re Invent Conference.

2013 Officially launched the certification process.

8 Certifications of 3 are associate level, 2 professional level and 3 new speciality levels recently added.
In Comparison with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google cloud are a comparable competitors.

Services to be focused:

Out of all the services available we need to know about these services to pass the exam (Solutions Architect Associate Certification):

• Messaging services.
• Desktop and App Streaming (Very High Level specifically around work space).
• Security and Identity Access Management (Very Important).
• Management Tools; only a little bit. 
• Storage, Databases, Networking & Content Delivery, Compute (Most Important)