Anyone got a new job with AWS certifications but without any existing work experience?

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My line of work is completely different . But have been investing So much time in the past 6 months to learn AWS and got these certificates . Also I am very hands-on . Just wondering what are my chances to get a job in AWS without having a professional work experience that I can showcase

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CCP and SAA

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Udemy

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What certs do you have OP?

What do you mean, without existing work experience? I recruited someone for whom the certs and his personal AWS experience was a huge selling point, even though he hadn't used it professionally. But he had other professional data science experience.

Can you expand on personal aws experience? Do you mean he did a ton of projects on the side? If so, what type of projects? Thanks!

Following... How did you study for SAA?

Acloudguru is pretty good

Well if you plan on doing technical work, you should know that with that knowledge you need to be able to apply it via infrastructure as code. Nobody really does things manually.

Or Terraform

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