New to AWS and want to learn it and get certified

I've decided to stop learning vmware and start learning AWS instead. I need some help in choosing a path and strategy so I can start learning it easily. I don't want to spend too much money on labs, I just want to control the experiments. I think I might look at youtube and build the labs in AWS
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Do you have Linux experience, or experience in either of the three? Where are you trying to go/what type of job do you want to do? I mean, you'll be doing 'it' on AWS, but what is 'it'? That'll help to decide path and strategy.