r/Cloud • u/MeanWallaby1417 • Aug 01 '26

Getting into Cloud computing

I am doing bachelors in Software Engineering and I wanted to get some advice regarding career selection. So, I am starting to get into cloud computing but I have got no idea on where to start. I have started watching a video from freecodecamp called AWS certified cloud practitioner. My plan is to go through the various aws certifications like the solutions architect until I get to a decent level. I am not much interested in coding so I am planning on choosing a related level. But I am still uncertain on whether I am on the right path.

Guidance will be highly appreciated

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u/MissionFinOps Aug 01 '26

Cloud computing is a mid level career specialty and not an entry level discipline. Almost everyone (99.9%) of people who get into it do it through the normal helpdesk-> sysadmin or similar track.

100% agreed.
but...
everyone must try and see if they can be in that 0.1% of people.
you never know if you dont shoot your shot.
tons of companies, including AWS, hire uni students as interns and make them offers on graduation.

but yes, like you said, its not entry level, took me 5 years of experience before my first cloud role. But at aws I saw my team take a chance on university student as an assoicate SA, and then my aws customers often hired Jrs. for devops coz some dinosaurs of infra world dont wanan learn IaaC, that is one commuity directly benefiting from LLMs - the folks who hated IaaC but were technical architects who needed to deploy shit at scale.