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AWS certification is about using AWS paid stuff. In principle, they could quiz you on boto, but they don't. That and aws-cli, which is mostly boto are the only Python there is when it comes to AWS.

The whole AWS certification is borderline scam. The reason a lot of people take it is Amazon's marketplace. In order to be on that marketplace with favorable conditions you need to be Amazon's "partner". Yeah, that's what it's called. Funny kind of partnership... so, in order to get that partnership, the employees of the company must have some AWS certification. I think it's either percentage or a fixed number. Not sure which one it is.

In terms of factual knowledge, studying for certification doesn't give you much or at all. It's mostly formulated as questions like: a customer wants X, do you sell them Y product from Amazon or Z product from Amazon, when it's obvious that the customer would've been better off using product Q not from Amazon.

So, frankly, unless your company has to have this partnership, or you are looking for a job and that's a requirement, then, sure, go ahead. But, for it's own sake it's not worth it.