A good example of this is AWS’ own Cloud Practitioner curriculum course topics versus what actually appears in the Cloud Practitioner exam. I scored a 100% on the knowledge check at the end of the course but a 70% on the proctored exam after missing quite a few questions about services that weren’t discussed in the study materials because the questions were covering comparatively new AWS services compared to what was in their own training material.

I've heard that it goes the other way, too: If you actually use AWS day-to-day, then you can have trouble on the exams because the exam is months out of date. So ex. if a service has some shortcoming and then they fix it, the exam might still expect you to say that the service can't do X.

Happy accident, or on purpose?

If you can't even keep up with one vendor, then you'll have to choose one to pay attention to and give up on tracking the rest...

>I find it simply impossible to keep up

How so? There are so many blogs, podcasts, news feeds, and youtube channels about clouds.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs even have a RSS feed for lazy persons

I would say you have probably answered your own question: There are so many blogs, podcasts, news feeds, and youtube channels that it often feels hard to stay on top of exactly what is relevant.

Blogs aren't training material. Blogs are a story arc, and story arc TV shows tend to have problems courting new viewers in later seasons. People drop in, have absolutely no idea what's going on, and leave.

Thank you for the positive feedback, I really appreciate it! Creating this newsletter takes quite a bit of time expecially when there are a lot of announcements so it's great to hear that it's useful for someone besides myself.

Anecdotally, I've met a couple at the party held by a common buddy who were sales managers at IBM and brought them the news that their company has a public cloud which went GA 6 months ago.