Cloud + Before AWS?

If I intend to do an AWS certification to Pursie a career in cloud, should I just study and do an AWS track or should I do a cloud + first?

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OctalDump

Cloud+ isn't going to hurt you. It's a much broader overview, so useful if you have nearly no Cloud knowledge. Once you have AWS, no one will care much about the Cloud+ (if they cared before). Cloud+ will at least let you talk intelligently about Cloud stuff and understand the different offerings and how SaaS is different to IaaS or PaaS or whatever else.

Maybe a good path is to just read one of the Cloud+ study guides to orient yourself and then jump into the AWS stuff.

DoubleNNs

Personally? I'd suggest to simply jump into AWS.

Look up the NIST Definition of Cloud, listen to some cloud podcasts on your way to/from work, read some blogs. Then jump into AWS certs. Whereas I haven't taken The Cloud+ and don't even know what's on the exam, I have passed 1 AWS cert and in the process of taking another one later this month. You don't really need any prereq knowledge prior to jumping in -- although Linux (and a little bit of Windows Server) knowledge would help a lot.