Ask HN: Are AWS Certifications worth it?

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I'm a junior software developer looking to move into devOps and I'm wondering if anyone thinks that AWS Certifications are worth it. Specifically the 'Foundational' certificate, the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner [1].

The sample questions [2] for the certification seem too easy for the certificate to be meaningful (you can get 100% by picking the name of the service that seems vaguely connected) but sometimes certifications are valued just to show that you're actually interested in an area.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/

[2] https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-cloud-practitioner/AWS-Certified-Cloud-Practitioner_Sample-Questions.pdf

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