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Highest-Paying Certifications

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cloud Professional

AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Amazon Web Services

$155K avg 55% pass rate
cybersecurity Advanced

CISSP

ISC2

$152K avg 50% pass rate
cloud Expert

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft

$150K avg 58% pass rate
cybersecurity Advanced

AWS Certified Security — Specialty

Amazon Web Services

$148K avg 48% pass rate
cybersecurity Advanced

CISM

ISACA

$148K avg 55% pass rate
cloud Advanced

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Amazon Web Services

$145K avg 45% pass rate

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AWS Cloud Practitioner vs Azure Fundamentals

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AWS Data Engineer Associate vs GCP Professional Data Engineer

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate vs Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer: two cloud-native data engineering ce...

AWS Data Engineer – Associate vs GCP Professional Data Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer vs Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional vs Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert: two top-tier DevOps certifications...

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional vs Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

AWS Solutions Architect Associate vs Professional

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AWS Solutions Architect Associate vs AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Career Paths

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Cloud Architect

Cloud architects design and oversee an organization's cloud computing strategy, including cloud adop...

$95K - $195K +23% growth

DevOps Engineer

DevOps engineers bridge development and operations, building CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastruct...

$90K - $185K +25% growth

Security Engineer

Security engineers design, implement, and maintain an organization's security systems and infrastruc...

$85K - $175K +28% growth

Cloud Engineer

Cloud engineers build, deploy, and maintain cloud-based systems and services. They work hands-on wit...

$80K - $170K +20% growth

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