AWS
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Practitioner → Solutions Architect → DevOps Pro
- Cloud Practitioner — core concepts, no prerequisites
- Solutions Architect Associate — VPC, HA design, storage
- DevOps Engineer Professional — CI/CD, CloudFormation, monitoring
⏱ ~4-6 months, start to Professional level
AZ
Microsoft Azure
AZ-900 → AZ-104 → AZ-400
- AZ-900 Fundamentals — no technical prerequisites
- AZ-104 Administrator — hands-on resource management
- AZ-400 DevOps Expert — Azure Pipelines, IaC, monitoring
⏱ ~3-5 months, start to Expert level
GCP
Google Cloud Platform
Associate Cloud Engineer → Professional DevOps Engineer
- Associate Cloud Engineer — deploying and managing GCP resources
- Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer — SRE practices, CI/CD, monitoring
- Optional: Cloud Digital Leader for non-technical business context
⏱ ~4-5 months, start to Professional level
TF
HashiCorp Terraform
Terraform Associate certification
- Core concepts — providers, resources, variables, outputs
- State management — remote backends, locking, drift
- Modules & workspaces — reusable, multi-environment patterns
⏱ ~6-8 weeks from zero, 2-3 weeks with prior experience