To those that have gotten several AWS certifications or Professional certifications without real work experience, has that helped you land more interviews/jobs?
I'm curious.
I have work experience. I was a DevOps engineer for about 5 months but it turns out it wasn't a good fit for me. I have the Cloud practitioner (from WGU), AI practitioner, SAA, and MLA certifications. I like talking architecture, I just hate kubernetes + terraform.
I only have the Solutions Architect Associate and Machine Learning Associate certification on my resume. I feel like if I were to get a professional certification on my resume, it'd raise some eyebrows even though I understand the material. I can study for a test, I just don't want to spend $100 a month to show I can work with Nat Gateways, Load balancers, EKS, Bastion hosts, etc etc.
What are your guys' takes on this? I assume most of you are pairing projects with your certs? What do you guys do to combat this? Are architecture diagrams enough?
Edit: I should have specified. I'm currently pursuing a masters in data science. I just recently completed the Machine Learning Engineer Associate cert.
I've been looking for jobs related to data science, data engineering, analytics engineering, etc.