Personally? By and large I think most certifications are worthless. Especially the entry level ones. Sure Amazon, it's *very* necessary to know the pricing structure of AWS. How do you actually use it? You don't know but damn if you can tell them the price tiers. Like that sort of stuff is fucking useless. Professionally though, yeah they'll help you get jobs. It used to be people would just look for experience and certs were just icing on the cake. Now though it seems that it's the complete opposite.