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Just about any Certificate is worthwhile depending on your reasons. Best case I've seen them used for is to help you break into new technology areas, EG. you want to work as an SRE for AWS services, having a few AWS Certificates under your belt might be just enough to get you that interview (plus you'd kill at AWS trivia nights).

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Love AWS trivia. Most effective way to harm your employer's wallet?

EKS?? EKS? EC2? EBS..? ELB..? Ah no way it was /data egress/ of course.

I have always wondered -- what makes egress expensive? Are they just trying to keep everything in-house, or is there some real cost to egress?

That’s how they can afford to give you other services for cheap. Their egress costs are negligible.

Egress costs are the walls that keep you in the garden.

I'd absolutely go to an AWS trivia night/lunch hour at work. Maybe GCP? Azure?

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