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Behind the Badge: Earning My AWS ML Engineer Associate in 2025

2025-07-31T03:01:26+00:00

Earning the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate MLA-C01 certification was one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences of my career in 2025. The journey was filled with intense study sessions since I'm working full-time, hands-on practice, and even an unexpected hurdle on exam day that forced me to reschedule. Through it all, I relied on a combination of Tutorials Dojo’s practice exams, the comprehensive study guide eBook, and AWS SkillBuilder’s structured learning paths to guide my preparation. Here’s a detailed account of how I conquered this certification—and the lessons I learned along the way. The Decision to [...]

Behind the Badge: Earning My AWS ML Engineer Associate in 20252025-07-31T03:01:26+00:00

My AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Exam Experience in 2025

2025-04-21T14:05:38+00:00

Having a certification is more than just a title. For me, it was a way to validate what I’ve been learning and applying over time. It was also a personal challenge—to prove to myself that I could take on one of the toughest AWS certifications, like passing my AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional in 2025, and come out stronger on the other side. Earning it boosted my confidence and opened new career opportunities, reinforcing the value of my hard work and dedication. My Preparation Journey Study Guide eBook for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02)  My preparation started with [...]

My AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Exam Experience in 20252025-04-21T14:05:38+00:00

My SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate Exam Experience 2023

2023-07-10T05:54:35+00:00

Getting certified is an essential milestone for IT professionals for career advancement in today's competitive industry. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) is one such certification. In this article, I will share my SAA-C03 exam experience, highlighting my challenges, overcoming setbacks, and the lessons I learned, including the various SAA-C03 exam topics I encountered. Basically, the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification test is an Associate-level exam of the AWS Global Certification program. Its latest exam code is SAA-C03, and the focus of this test is on designing cost-effective, scalable, high-performing, and resilient cloud solutions in the [...]

My SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate Exam Experience 20232023-07-10T05:54:35+00:00

10 Years of AWS Certification: Is It Still Worth It to get AWS Certified this 2023?

2023-05-30T03:17:44+00:00

10 years ago, on April 30 2013, Amazon Web Services launched its AWS Global Certification Program.  The primary purpose of this program is to validate the necessary technical skills and knowledge required for building secure and reliable cloud-based applications using the AWS Cloud. Passing the AWS Certification exam means that you can prove your expertise and knowledge in AWS to your current employers or even to the prospective companies you wish to apply for. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam was the first AWS certification that was released in that year. This is followed by two other role-based certification [...]

10 Years of AWS Certification: Is It Still Worth It to get AWS Certified this 2023?2023-05-30T03:17:44+00:00

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

2023-06-23T06:29:32+00:00

Bookmarks How it Works Common Use Cases Components Of QLDB Performance Scalability Reliability Backup and Restore Security Pricing Limitations Amazon Quantum Ledger Database Cheat Sheet Fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log ‎owned by a central trusted authority. Used to track all application data changes, and maintain a complete and verifiable history of changes over time Amazon QLDB is serverless.  No capacity provisioning required or setting read/write limits. QLDB transactions are ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) compliant. Amazon QLDB [...]

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)2023-06-23T06:29:32+00:00

Increasing MTU for Your EC2 Instance

2023-06-05T02:27:26+00:00

What is MTU? MTU (maximum transmission unit) is the maximum size of one packet of data that can be transferred in a network. The default MTU size for Ethernet devices is 1500 bytes. This packet size contains the actual payload data as well as network overhead information needed for communication within the network. All AWS EC2 instances support the default MTU size. But many current instance sizes support 9001 MTU, also referred to as jumbo frames. Enabling jumbo frames for supported EC2 instances can be beneficial because it improves network efficiency by allowing your instance to send fewer packets with [...]

Increasing MTU for Your EC2 Instance2023-06-05T02:27:26+00:00

Amazon Cognito User Pools vs Identity Pools

2024-08-29T01:45:49+00:00

Bookmarks Amazon Cognito User Pools Amazon Cognito Identity Pools With the proliferation of smartphones in our connected world, more and more developers are quickly deploying their applications on the cloud. One of the first challenges in developing applications is allowing users to log in and authenticate on your applications. There are multiple stages involved in user verification and most of these are not visible from the end-user. AWS provides an easy solution for this situation. User Identity verification is at the core of Amazon Cognito. It provides solutions for three key areas of user identification:  [...]

Amazon Cognito User Pools vs Identity Pools2024-08-29T01:45:49+00:00

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