Panduan Sertifikasi Cloud 2026

# === PATH UNTUK BACKEND/FULL-STACK DEVELOPER ===
# 1. AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — 2-4 minggu
#    → Fondasi, bisa di-skip jika sudah familiar AWS
# 2. AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) — 6-8 minggu
#    → Sertifikasi PALING POPULER dan PALING DICARI
#    → Covers: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, CloudFront, IAM
#    → Salary premium: +20-25%

# === PATH UNTUK DEVOPS / SRE ===
# 1. AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — 2-4 minggu
# 2. AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) — 6-8 minggu
# 3. AWS DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02) — 8-12 minggu
#    → Covers: CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, automation

# === PATH UNTUK DATA ENGINEER ===
# 1. AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — 2-4 minggu
# 2. AWS Data Engineer Associate (DEA-C01) — 6-8 minggu
#    → Covers: S3, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, EMR, Athena

# === ESTIMASI STUDY TIME ===
# Foundational: 40-60 jam (2-4 minggu × 2 jam/hari)
# Associate: 80-120 jam (6-8 minggu × 2-3 jam/hari)
# Professional: 120-200 jam (8-12 minggu × 3-4 jam/hari)

# === MINGGU 1-2: FOUNDATIONS ===
# Topik: IAM, EC2, S3, VPC
# - Tonton video course (Stephane Maarek / Adrian Cantrill)
# - Hands-on: Launch EC2, buat S3 bucket, setup VPC
# - Baca AWS whitepaper: "Overview of Amazon Web Services"
# - Practice: 20 soal per hari dari practice exam

# === MINGGU 3-4: DATABASE & STORAGE ===
# Topik: RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, EFS, FSx
# - Hands-on: Deploy RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), DynamoDB table
# - Bandingkan: Kapan pakai RDS vs DynamoDB?
# - Practice: 30 soal per hari

# === MINGGU 5: NETWORKING & CONTENT DELIVERY ===
# Topik: Route 53, CloudFront, API Gateway, ELB/ALB
# - Hands-on: Setup load balancer, CDN distribution
# - Practice: 30 soal per hari

# === MINGGU 6: SERVERLESS & CONTAINERS ===
# Topik: Lambda, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, ECS, EKS, Fargate
# - Hands-on: Deploy serverless API (Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB)
# - Practice: 30 soal per hari

# === MINGGU 7: SECURITY & MONITORING ===
# Topik: KMS, WAF, Shield, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config
# - Hands-on: Setup monitoring dashboard, configure alerts
# - Practice: 40 soal per hari

# === MINGGU 8: REVIEW & PRACTICE EXAM ===
# - Full practice exam setiap 2 hari (65 soal, 130 menit)
# - Review semua jawaban yang salah
# - Focus area: topik yang masih lemah
# - Target: Konsisten >75% di practice exam (passing: 720/1000)
# - Exam day: Percaya diri, manage waktu (2 menit/soal)

# === PROJECT 1: Static Website di S3 + CloudFront ===
# 1. Buat S3 bucket, enable static website hosting
# 2. Upload HTML/CSS/JS files
# 3. Buat CloudFront distribution
# 4. Setup Route 53 custom domain (opsional)
# Cost: $0 (within free tier)
# Service: S3, CloudFront, Route 53

# === PROJECT 2: Serverless API ===
# 1. Buat DynamoDB table (users)
# 2. Buat Lambda function (CRUD operations)
# 3. Buat API Gateway REST API
# 4. Connect: API GW → Lambda → DynamoDB
# 5. Test dengan Postman/curl
# Cost: $0 (within free tier)
# Service: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM

# === PROJECT 3: Multi-tier Application ===
# 1. VPC dengan public & private subnet
# 2. EC2 di public subnet (web server)
# 3. RDS di private subnet (database)
# 4. Security groups & NACLs
# 5. ALB di depan EC2
# Cost: ~$5/bulan (RDS t3.micro)
# Service: VPC, EC2, RDS, ALB, Security Groups

# === PROJECT 4: CI/CD Pipeline ===
# 1. CodeCommit repo (atau GitHub + CodeStar Connection)
# 2. CodeBuild: build & test
# 3. CodeDeploy: deploy ke EC2/ECS/Lambda
# 4. CodePipeline: orchestrate semua
# Cost: ~$1-3/bulan
# Service: CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline

# === PROJECT 5: Monitoring & Alerting ===
# 1. CloudWatch: custom metrics & dashboards
# 2. CloudWatch Alarms: email notification via SNS
# 3. CloudTrail: audit logging
# 4. AWS Config: compliance monitoring
# Cost: $0-2/bulan
# Service: CloudWatch, SNS, CloudTrail, Config